Gyula Pauer

Gyula Pauer [ ˈɟulɒ ˈpɒuɛr ] (born February 28, 1941 in Budapest ; † October 8, 2012 there ) was a Hungarian artist. Pauer worked as an action artist, painter and sculptor as well as an actor and filmmaker.

Life

After studying at the art academy, he was Alajos DeBattista's assistant for four years. At the end of the 1960s he was involved in the Hungarian underground avant-garde and developed the concept of "pseudo-art". In the 1960s he was a participant in the Villány Sculpture Symposium in Hungary . Since 1970 he has worked at theaters around the world in a wide variety of positions such as costume design, directing, artistic direction and acting.

He made his first feature film in the late 1980s. He worked on several of Béla Tarr's films , both as an actor and as a costume and set designer.

He has been a professor at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest since 1990 and a member of the Széchenyi Academy for Literature and Art since 1993. In 1993 he received the Munkácsy Prize.

South of the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, on the Lower Danube Quay, a Holocaust memorial for the Arrow Cross victims was erected in 2005 by Gyula Pauer and film director Can Togay : over a length of 40 meters, sixty pairs of shoes were made to commemorate the shootings of 1944/45 Metal lined up.

• Holocaust memorial by Gyula Pauer and Can Togay
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  Shoes on the Danube Bank Holocaust Memorial (Gyula Pauer and Can Togay, 2005)

Filmography

• 1988 Damnation (Kárhozat)
• 1990 Szürkület
• 1992 A nyaraló
• 1993 Sose halunk meg
• 1994 Priváthorvát és Wolframbarát
• 1994 Sátántangó
• 1994 A turné
• 1998 scenvedély
• 1999 Ámbár tanár úr
• 2000 glamor
• 2000 The Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák)

Web links

• Gyula Pauer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography of Gyula Pauer (Hungarian)
• Doreen Eschinger: "The memory of the Holocaust in Hungary - reflections" (PDF)
• Memorial to victims in Budapest
• News on the death of Gyula Pauer