János Kmetty

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János Kmetty (* 23. December 1889 in Miskolc , † 16th November 1975 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian painter, printmaker and draftsman of Cubism .

Kmetty Museum on Fő tér (main square) in Szentendre

Life

Kmetty received his education at small private art schools in Košice , and later in Budapest , where he also attended Károly Ferenczy's evening school . The orderly and structured style of composition typical of him developed around this time until around 1910.

János Kmetty went on two study trips to Paris . At the first he enrolled briefly at the Académie Julian in 1911 and during this time Paul Cézanne had a strong impact. After his return from Paris he became a member of a left-wing political group around Lajos Kassák , which tried to enlighten and change people through art. The short-lived Hungarian Socialist Soviet Republic (1919) awakened a creative enthusiasm and radicalism in him, which he shared with other young artists from Košice, Cluj and Nagybánya ( Frauenbach ). In 1927 he made his second trip to Paris and after his return he became active a second time in the life of the left avant-garde .

In 1930 he moved to Szentendre , where he became a member of a local art colony. From 1946 on he taught at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts . Kmetty died in Budapest in 1975 at the age of 85. He wrote a detailed autobiography from 1922 to 1972.

Works

  • "Standing female nude", 1910
  • "Male Nude", 1911
  • "Self-Portrait", 1911
  • "Self-Portrait with an Apple", 1911
  • "Landscape with a Bush", 1911
  • "Kecskemét", 1912
  • "Ascension", 1913
  • “Concert”, 1918
  • “Still life with fruits”, 1930
  • “Men on the Street”, 1930
  • "Nagybánya", 1932

literature

  • Erzsébet Schaár: Art in Hungary 1900-1950 , Lucerne Art Museum , 1975
  • János Kmetty: Kmetty János írásai: festő voltam és vagyok , Corvina Kiadó, 1976
  • János Kmetty: Kmetty János festőművész emlékkiállítása , Műcsarnok, 1977

See also

Web links

Commons : János Kmetty  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry by János Kmetty on eArt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ János Kmetty and Jenő Kerényi exhibition ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pest County Museums Directorate (PMMI), accessed April 9, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pmmi.hu
personal data
SURNAME Kmetty, Janos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Miskolc
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1975
Place of death Budapest