Ferenc Varga (painter)

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Ferenc "Feri" Varga (born March 22, 1906 in Terézföld , Hungary (today Terezino Polje , Croatia ), † October 20, 1989 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a Hungarian - French painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

Varga's mother, Cecilia, came from a Viennese middle class family. At the age of 16 she married the Hungarian magnate Jószef Varga and gave birth to Ferenc as the eighth of ten children. As a result of the First World War , the family lost their property and moved to Budapest .

Varga grew up in a family that produced important artistic personalities in various fields. His great uncle Jószef Kiss was a respected ballad poet. His older brother Hugo Varga was a writer and the husband of the sculptor Ida Móricz , the sister of Zsigmond Móricz .

Varga lived in Budapest from 1914 and came to Paris as a sculptor in 1924 , where he turned to painting. From 1924 to 1927 he studied in Paris, first at the École des Beaux-Arts and then at the École des Arts et Métiers , where he graduated in 1927. In 1933 he worked artistically for a year on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca . In 1940 he fled Paris from the National Socialists to southern France and settled in Cagnes-sur-Mer . From around 1950 he belonged to the circle of friends of Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso .

In 1961 he married for the third time. His wife Leonore geb. He followed Bäßler to Germany and settled in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. He lived there with his wife and three children Isabella, Patrick and Paloma until his death. The youngest daughter, Paloma Varga Weisz , became a successful draftsman and sculptor.

Works

Works by Feri Varga can be found in numerous collections and museums in Germany, Austria, Hungary, France, Sweden and the USA. E.g .: Musée Picasso ( Antibes ), Musée de Cagnes-sur-Mer, Folkwang Museum Essen, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , Landesmuseum Mainz, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, private collections Gaffé (Brussels) and Haubrich (Cologne)

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1946 Gentilhommière Gallery, Paris
  • 1948 Quattre Chemins Gallery, Paris
  • 1948 École de Paris , Budapest
  • 1949 traveling exhibition Stockholm - Copenhagen - Lucerne
  • 1950 C. Allendy Gallery, Paris
  • 1954 Clasing Gallery, Münster
  • 1954 Musée Picasso, Antibes
  • 1955 Wuppertal Museum Association
  • 1955 Kunstverein Karlsruhe
  • 1955 Gallery “La Bussola”, Turin
  • 1956 Cercle Volney, Paris
  • 1957 Cologne Art Association
  • 1958 Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • 1958 Gallwitz Gallery , Karlsruhe
  • 1958 Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
  • 1961 Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
  • 1961 Musée Picasso, Antibes
  • 1962 Galerie Anfora, Paris
  • 1966 Mayor Ludwig Reichert House, Ludwigshafen
  • 1967 Bauschlott Castle , newcomers
  • 1970 Neustadter Kunstverein, Deidesheim town hall
  • 1973 Gallery of the Palatinate Mental Clinic , Landeck
  • 1976 Bausback Gallery, Mannheim
  • 1976 Kunstverein, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
  • 1981 Kunstverein, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
  • 1986 Herrenhof Mußbach , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

literature

  • Júlia Cserba: Magyar képzőművészek Franciaországban 1903-2005 . Vince Kiadó, 2006 (German: Hungarian artists in France 1903–2005 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Feri Varga 1906–1989. ferivarga.com, accessed July 11, 2020 (biography).
  2. ↑ Prize winners. kramm-stiftung.de, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Varga, Ferenc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Varga, Feri (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-French painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Terézföld , Hungary (today Terezino Polje , Croatia )
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1989
Place of death Neustadt an der Weinstrasse