Eva Nagy

Eva Nagy: The colors of the French flag (1969)

Eva Nagy (born November 14, 1921 in Aiud , Transylvania , † October 9, 2003 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Nagy was born in Transylvania as the daughter of Domokos Nagy, director of a regional consumer cooperative, and Piroska Kovács, a teacher. In 1938 she began studying for two years at the Drawing and Painting Academy in Kolozsvár under István Toth and Sándor Szopos.

In 1943 she married Béla Piskolti, of whom she has a son. Béla, who served as an officer on the nearby front, was captured by the approaching Soviet troops in September 1944. In the autumn and winter months of 1944/45 Nagy - with her baby - was on the run for months from the advancing Red Army troops . Traces of this traumatic experience can be found in Nagy's later works . In 1949 and 1950 she studied drawing and painting again at the College of Fine Arts in Kolozsvár. In September 1950, after her husband was released from Soviet captivity and repatriated to Hungary, she emigrated with her son to Hungary for the purpose of family reunification. In Budapest she studied from 1950 to 1954 at the Academy of Fine Arts under Bertalan Pór . In 1954 she graduated. In the spring of 1952, Nagy's marriage with Béla Piskolti had been divorced and in 1953 she married Károly Somogyi, with whom she was married until 1956. After the suppression of the Hungarian uprising in autumn 1956, Nagy and her son fled to Austria in January 1957.

From 1957 she continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Albert Paris Gütersloh . She received a Rockefeller Scholarship that allowed her to earn a living until early 1962. In 1965 Ernst Fuchs , who was running his own gallery at the time, organized Nagy's first solo exhibition in Austria. From 1967 until her death in 2003 she received support from the cultural department of the City of Vienna and the federal government, first from the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture and later from the Federal Chancellery , Section for Art Affairs.

She died on October 9, 2003 in Vienna. She is buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Solo exhibitions

• 1965 Galerie Ernst Fuchs, Vienna
• 1971 Gallery 10, Vienna
• 1971 Theater am Schwedenplatz, Vienna
• 1971 Blue Gallery, Vienna
• 1973 Holzer Gallery, Vienna
• 1973 Theater am Schwedenplatz, Vienna
• 1974 Gallery in Blutgasse, Vienna
• 1974 Galerie Holzer, Vienna
• 1976 gallery in Blutgasse, Vienna
• 1976 Galerie am Marktplatz, Boeblingen, Germany
• 1978 Galerie am Marktplatz, "Imagery as a Means of Expression", Böblingen, Germany
• 1978 Galerie Gumpendorf of the district museum Mariahilf: "Éva Nagy - picture language as means of expression", Vienna
• 1982 District director of the 8th district: "Éva Nagy - oil paintings, watercolors and graphics", Vienna
• 1985 Metropolis Galerie International d'Art, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1986 Small gallery: "Painting and Graphics 1936 - 1986", Vienna
• 1986 Cultural Association of the Viennese Hungarians: "Impressions from nature, abstractions and meditation", Vienna
• 1988 Galerie Emilia Suciu: "Paintings, pastels, drawings from 1958-1988", Karlsruhe, Germany
• 1989 Galerie Emilia Suciu, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 1989 Cultural Center II. District, Budapest, Hungary
• 1990 Duna Gallery and the Austrian Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
• 1991 Duna Gallery and the Austrian Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary
• 1991 Galerie Emilia Suciu, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 1991 Hatvan: "Oil Paintings", Hungary
• 2006 Körmendi Gallery, Sopron (Oedenburg) and Budapest: "Éva Nagy: 1921-2003", Hungary
• 2008 Leopold Museum, Vienna: "Ernestine Rotter-Peters and Éva Nagy: Two Viennese Artists of the 20th Century"

Publicly owned work (selection)

• Austrian Gallery Belvedere (19 works)
• Leopold Museum (6 works)
• Republic of Austria, Artothek des Bundes (12 works)
• MUSA Museum on demand (18 works)
• Hungarian state

Awards (selection)

• 1959 Austrian Füger Prize
• 1970–2003 artist grant / honorary gift from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art and later from the Federal Chancellery
• 1967–2003 grants from the City of Vienna's City Administration (cultural department)
• 1980 Premia d'Italia, Diploma di Distinzione
• 1983 Ordine internazionale dei volontari par la pace, Diploma d'Onore
• 1986 Cavalier de l'Art, Accademia Bedriacense, Italy
• 1986 gold medal from the Accademia d'Italia dell'Arte e del Lavoro, Salsomaggiore, Italy
• 1992 Honory Member, Fundacion Abello, Barcelona, ​​Spain
• Honorary appointment to the National Board of Advisors, American Biographical Institute, United States, et al

Web links

• Ega Nagy's website

literature

Monograph and catalogs

• Eva Nagy - pictures 1959–1988, Karlsruhe 1988, with contributions a. a. by Tibor Hanák, Gy. Klamár, Karl Herrmann and Kirsten Voigt
• Eva Nagy 1921–2003 (Szabolcs Etele Piskolti, ed.) Budapest 2006, with a contribution by Ms. E. Voggeneder "The resting labyrinth - Eva Nagy's work: From realism to abstraction"
• Eva Nagy 1921–2003 A Central European painter, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2007 (Szabolcs E. Piskolti ed.)

Newspaper articles

• Anon: Hungary's young painters' guard in Gumpendorf, in: Die Presse, No. 3010, August 2, 1958, p. 9.
• Kovách, Aladár: Encounters, in: Magyar Hirado, 15th year, No. 8, August 1, 1971, no p.
• Anon: Exhibition by a visionary artist, in: Donaubote, 15th year, No. September 8, 1971, no p.
• Anon: A fox discovery for our coal train, in: Wiener Kurier, December 2, 1971, o. P.
• Anon: Wie-Wo, in: Wochenpresse, No. 50, Volume 14, December 19, 1971.
• Seen-heard-read, in: Wochenpresse, No. 11, Volume 27, March 15, 1972, p. 32.
• Visek, Maria: Exhibition: Gallery in the Blutgasse 1976, in: unknown.
• A new Eva Nagy in Blutgasse, in Magyar Hirado, no year, no no., 1976
• Two painters, in Magyar Hirado, no year, no number, 1977.
• Schnurr, Sybille: Visual language as a means of expression - The painter Eva Nagy exhibits on the market square, in SZ Feuilleton, No. 17, January 21, 1978, p. 14.
• Buchsbaum, Maria: Summer Exhibition Kaleidoscope, in: Wiener Zeitung, July 8, 1986, o. P.
• Voigt, Kirsten: The colors of desperation, in Karlsruher Kultur, Germany, Badische Kulturnachrichten, No. 290, December 15, 1988, p. 20.
• Hanák, Tibor: Eva Nagy's pictures, in unknown
• Klamár, Gyula: Eva Nagy painters buy their pictures, in: Wiener Kunsthefte, August 7, 1986, p. 99.
• Fuchs, Ernst: About Eva Nagy, in Wiener Kunsthefte, August 7, 1986, p. 102.
• Visek, Maria: Eva Nagys Kunst, in: Wiener Kunsthefte, August 7, 1986, p. 102.
• Nagy, Eva: About me and the abstraction of the world, in Wiener Kunsthefte, August 7, 1986, p. 103.
• Brück, Matthias: Works by Eva Nagy in the Suciu Gallery, in: Pfälzer Tagblatt, October 1990, o. P.
• Voigt, Wolfgang: On the exhibition in the Suciu Gallery, in: Badische Latest Nachrichten, Volume 45, No. 239, December 19, 1990, no p.
• Anon: Im Labyrinth, in: Karlsruher Nachrichten, October 1991, o. P.
• Anon: Gallery of the little prince artist portrait, in: Oser Bote, No. 43/95, p. 10.
• Sümegi, György: Eva Nagy, a refugee painter, in: Korunk (Our Time), 12/2004, pp. 77–92.
• Ebli, Gábor: Nagyenyed, Budapest, Bécs (Vienna) -The rediscovery of Eva Nagy's life's work, in: Uj Müvészet (New Art), Budapest, October 2007, year 18, no. 10, p. 50.
• Two almost forgotten Viennese artists in the Leopold Museum, in: Der Standard, March 2008, no p.
• Brigitte Borchhardt: Unjustly Forgotten Artists, in: Wiener Zeitung, March 21, 2008, o. P.
• Wagner, István: Ki volt Nagy Éva? `` (Who was Eva Nagy?), In: on-line Artportal.hu, April 30, 2008