József Rippl-Rónai

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Self-Portrait (1924), Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest)
Aristide Maillol (1899), Musée d'Orsay

József Rippl-Rónai (born May 23, 1861 in Kaposvár , Austrian Empire  ; died November 25, 1927 in Kaposvár, Kingdom of Hungary ) was a Hungarian painter of Symbolism and Late Impressionism and a pioneer of modernism in Hungarian painting.

Life

After graduating from high school , Rippl-Rónai first studied pharmacy in Budapest . In 1884 he went to Munich in order to attend the Academy at Johann Caspar Herterich and Wilhelm von Diez the academic painting to study won a scholarship and was able, two years later go to Paris there with Munkácsy to work. In his house he met the Scots James Pitcairn-Knowles , with whom he would be a lifelong friend. In 1889 he stayed in Pont-Aven and broke away from Munkácsy. He had his first solo exhibition in 1892 in the Austro-Hungarian embassy in Paris.

His first great success was the exhibition of the picture My Grandmother in 1894 at a Salon de Champ-de-Mars , which brought him acceptance and acceptance by the artist group Nabis , making him a “Nabi hongrois” . In 1899 he was Aristide Maillol's guest in Banyuls-sur-Mer for a long time, where he painted landscapes, seascapes and his host.

In his various artistic phases - after the symbolist, color-reduced, “black” period, four more are defined - it was always about not adapting to a group or school, but rather developing his own style and cultivating this difference. His goal was to become a great artist, which he could only achieve with originality.

My grandmother (1894)

He not only painted, but, like his colleagues, also devoted himself to applied art and designed everyday objects. The embroidery designed by him and executed by his French partner and later wife Lazarine Boudrion won a prize at the Paris World Exhibition. His Hungarian patron Andrássy commissioned him to furnish living spaces, works that were carried out by the artists Miksa Róth , Endre Thék and Vilmos Zsolnay . In 1912 he received an order for glass windows in the new building of the Ernst Museum, also in Budapest, where he was now staying again; the design was also shown in 1912 at the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne . The glass objects he designed were created in collaboration with the glassblower Friedrich Zitzmann in Wiesbaden .

He taught at the free art school in Budapest, among others Sándor Bortnyik and István Beöthy , but he was unable to establish his own “school” in Hungary. He only gained recognition in his home country with difficulty and in stages. When he died in 1927 in the property he designed, the Villa Roma in Kaposvár, he was a Hungarian who had been in Paris and who had returned from the "West" ("Nyugat") to the circle of authors of the Nyugat , which he had portrayed in pastel pictures .

The baroque house and studio redesigned by Rippl-Rónai is set up as a museum, and paintings from his brother Ödön's collection hang on the walls.

His hometown has named the regional museum after him, which has large holdings of his work.

Autobiography

Rippl-Rónai Museum in Kaposvár
  • Emlekezesei , Nyugat Budapest 1911, (Memoirs, Hungarian)

Works (selection)

  • Woman in a Blue Dress (around 1889)

  • Girl with a birdcage (1892)

  • Self-portrait with a brown hat (1897)

  • Women in the Garden (1900)

  • My father and Piacsek enjoying red wine (1907)

  • Interior (1909)

  • Lady with Three Girls (ca.1909)

  • Breakfast table (around 1910)

  • Farm work (around 1910)

  • Portrait Zdenka Ticharich (1921)

literature

Web links

Commons : József Rippl-Rónai  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilona Sármány – Parsons, The summer of our content , counts five such phases
  2. ↑ Ilona Sármány – Parsons, ibid.
  3. ↑ on the Ernst Museum see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Ernst Múzeum
  4. ^ Triptych draft for a colored window, Sonderbund, catalog # 323
  5. ↑ Ildikó Kálosi, Diána Radványi: Artists, studios and factories . In: Gabriella Balla, translated by Alan Campbell (ed.): Tiffany & Gallé - Art nouveau glass (catalog) . Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest 2007, ISBN 978-963-9738-03-4 , p. 136 ff .
  6. ^ Obituary in "Nyugat", volume 1, 1928 by Károly Kernstok (online in the Nyugat archive )
personal data
SURNAME Rippl-Rónai, József
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaposvár
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1927
Place of death Kaposvár