Endre Nemes

Endre Nemes (born November 10, 1909 in Pécsvárad , Hungary , † September 22, 1985 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was a Hungarian-Swedish painter and graphic artist . He was one of the most important representatives of modern painting and printmaking after the Second World War .

Life

Early years

Endre Nemes studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague . The first exhibition of his art took place together with Jacob Bornfriend in the Dr. Feigl in Prague in 1936. He also took part in exhibitions at the Prague Secession .

In 1938 Nemes emigrated to Helsinki and in 1940 he moved to Sweden for good . The way to his final home led him via detours from Budapest via Vienna , Prague , Paris , Helsinki, Oslo to Stockholm . His résumé was marked by a lack of roots and loneliness.

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Endre Nemes, Painter in studio , 1938, NG Prague

Endre Nemes, Encounter with the Baroque , 1968–79

Endre Nemes had his first exhibition in Stockholm in 1941. In 1948 Nemes received Swedish citizenship. In 1959 he had solo exhibitions in Zurich and Freiburg im Breisgau, as well as taking part in documenta 2 in Kassel in the painting department. Retrospectives of his art took place in the Art Gallery in Lund , in Gothenburg and in the National Gallery in Prague.

In 1965 he received a scholarship from the Swedish state. The most important exhibition of his works took place in 1965 in the Drian Galleries in London . Endre Neme's works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, the Philadelphia Art Museum in the USA, the Brooklyn Museum, USA, the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava and numerous other museums worldwide.

His art was still influenced by surrealism in the thirties. In his pictures the people appear as part of a mechanism, like a machine. Later he came to abstract painting . His entire work is characterized by a special melancholy.

literature

II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel. Volume 1: Painting ; Volume 2: Sculpture ; Volume 3: Graphic Art ; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959

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personal data
SURNAME	Nemes, Endre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian-Swedish painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pécsvárad , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	September 22, 1985
Place of death	Stockholm , Sweden