Georg Orbán
Georg Orbán (born January 3, 1917 in Nagyvárd , Hungary, today Oradea , Romania as György Sándor Géza Orbán ; † April 16, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German painter and ceramist .
Life
Orbán was the younger brother of the dancer, author, painter and ceramist Gabor Béla Orbán (* 1915 in Hungary; † September 29, 2002 in Berlin) and the nephew of the Hungarian writer and film critic Béla Balázs .
Orbán graduated from high school in Budapest in 1936 . From 1938 to 1940 he took painting lessons from Emil Vén . During the Second World War he did military service on the Eastern Front (1940-1945) and spent the years 1945-1948 in Soviet captivity. From 1948 to 1952 he studied at the Budapest Art Academy . Since 1952 he lived and worked as a freelance painter. In 1956 he moved to Berlin. From 1960 to 1964 he lived in Brazil and Argentina. In 1964 he moved back to Berlin.
Orbán was married to Dora Wanda Schimmack.
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Orbán had numerous exhibitions in Berlin ( Galerie am Savignyplatz , Villa Oppenheim , Galerie Werkstatt / Avalun Galerie), Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Hamburg, Dresden, Meissen Albrechtsburg (1996), Potsdam as well as in Brazil and Argentina. His last exhibition was in Budapest in 2008.
In 2000, Orbán donated some pictures to the Berlin-Charlottenburg Art Office.
Individual evidence
- ↑ about Gabor Orbán , German Dance Archive Cologne
- ^ Entry on Wikipedia Hungary: Emil Vén
- ^ Catalog, exhibition Dream Pieces from Hungary , 1988, Galerie am Savignyplatz.
- ^ Catalog, exhibition, 1994, with texts by Inka Bach , Galerie am Savignyplatz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orbán, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orbán, György Sándor Géza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagyvárd , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 2010 |
| Place of death | Berlin , Germany |