József Ács (painter)

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József Ács (born October 14, 1914 in Topolya , Kingdom of Hungary , now Bačka Topola, Serbia; † April 3, 1990 in Novi Sad , German : Neusatz, Hungarian : Újvidék, Serbia ) was a Yugoslav painter, art educator and art critic from the Hungarian Ethnic group in the Voivodina .

Life and work

After high school in Subotica (German until 1918: Maria-Theresiopel, Hungarian: Szabadka), Ács studied art education and painting at the Royal Art Academy in Belgrade from 1934 and from 1937 with Milun Milunović at the art academy there, then was an art teacher from 1941 to 1953 Topolya, Zenta and Novi Sad and from 1953 to 1956 principal of the School of Applied Arts in Novi Sad. From 1956 he was an art critic for the daily Magyar Szó (d. I. "Hungarian word") for the Hungarians of the Voivodina.

In his painting, Ács went through several stages of development: starting from Post-Impressionism , he came to Surrealism and Art Informel via Expressionism and Socialist Realism . His works have been shown in exhibitions outside of Yugoslavia in Hungary ( Szeged ), Italy ( Modena ), Germany (Regensburg, Stuttgart), in Vienna and in Paris.

In 1952, József Ács in Zenta was the main initiator and organizer of the first Yugoslav artists' colony , which followed over time, first in the Voivodina and then in the rest of Yugoslavia, a total of around 70 such "colonies", whose task it is to work in regions poor in cultural institutions a common appearance of painters to promote contact with the population and to increase their cultural awareness. Following the pattern of Zenta, the respective cities and municipalities pay for these artist colonies. The Zenta artists' colony was the first in Yugoslavia to establish contact with Hungary. In 1965 an exemplary collaboration began between Zenta and the artist colony in the Hungarian Hódmezővásárhely (German Neumarkt an der Tisza) with mutual exhibitions, artist study trips and the exchange of documentation.

Ács also initiated the establishment of the next artist colonies in the multi-ethnic Serbian areas of the Batschka - 1953 in Bačka Topola, 1954 in Bečej (Hungarian: Óbecse) - and the Banat : 1956 in Ečka (Hungarian: Német-Écska, German: German- Etschka). For his artistic and educational work, Ács has been awarded a number of prizes.

Awards

  • 1960: 1st laureate of the newly created Prize of the Forum of Fine Arts;
  • 1969: Prize of the City of Novi Sad;
  • 1969: State Prize of the Voivodina
  • 1969: Vuk Prize, the highest Yugoslav culture prize;
  • 1973: Péter Kukac Nagyapáti Fine Arts Prize.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ János Dömötör: (PDF; 2.0 MB) Negyedszázados a Zentai müvésztelep . In: A Móra Ferenc Évkönyve 1974-75 / 1 , pp. 241-254 and
    János Dömötör: 25 years of the artists' colony in Senta . In: A Móra Ferenc Évkönyve 1974-75 / 1 pp. 254/255

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SURNAME Ács, József
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter and art critic of Yugoslav nationality
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Topolya , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1990
Place of death Novi Sad , Serbia