Eugene Remsey

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Eugen Remsey (born November 2, 1885 in Nagykőrös , Austria-Hungary , † July 26, 1980 in Szentendre ) was a Hungarian painter and writer .

Life

Remsey studied at the academies in Budapest , Munich and Vienna , was a member of the artists 'association "Keve", and later a member of the artists' association "Spiritualis".

During the First World War Remsey worked as a war painter. On March 12, 1916 he was accepted into the art group of the kuk war press quarter , but he also worked for the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung . Remsey was assigned to the 11th Honvéd Cavalry Division in the Russian theater of war. Subsequently, he also stayed in the Bay of Cattaro . For the aid agencies of the Red Cross were lithographs and etchings by the artist reproduced . Remsey was listed in the war press headquarters until December 1918.

Jenő György Remsey lived here

Remsey lived in Gödöllő in the 1920s . In the years from 1957 to 1964 Remsey sent several exhibitions in Paris .

Works (selection)

  • Heavy artillery in fire , oil on canvas, 80.5 × 111 cm ( Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna)
  • Before the gas attack , 1917, oil on canvas, 120 × 100.5 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna)

literature

  • Liselotte Popelka: From hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914–1918. Vienna 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - media administration 1914–1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 183.
  2. ^ Austrian Army Museum (ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 10
  3. ↑ Liselotte Popelka: From Hurray to the corpse field. Paintings from the war picture collection 1914–1918. Vienna 1981, pp. 52-54.
personal data
SURNAME Remsey, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Remsey, Jeno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagykőrös
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1980
Place of death Szentendre