Jenő Barcsay

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Jenő Barcsay (born January 14, 1900 in Katona / Transylvania , † April 2, 1988 in Szentendre ) was a Hungarian painter , graphic artist , draftsman and specialist writer.

life and work

Barcsay began his career with piano training in 1918 at the Marosvásárhely Conservatory . Between 1920 and 1926 he studied painting with János Vaszary and Gyula Rudnay, as well as graphics with Viktor Olgyai at the Academy of Fine Arts (today: Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts ) in Budapest .

A stay in Paris in 1926/27 and Rome in 1928/30, which he financed through a scholarship, shaped his style. From the summer of 1925 to 1928 Barcsay was active in the artists' colony Hódmezővásárhely , and from 1929 in Szentendre and Budapest. From 1931 to 1945 he was a drawing teacher at the commercial vocational school in Pest . From 1945 to 1974 Barcsay held the professorship for anatomical drawing at what is now the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest.

Since 1966 he has had a studio in Szentendre. The Barcsay Collection (Barcsay Gyűjtemény) with works by the artist can be viewed as a public exhibition in Szentendre .

Stylistic development

Barcsay's first genre paintings, which were still influenced by Gyula Rudnay's romanticizing style, are lyrical landscapes of the Hungarian lowlands.

The Paris experience ( Cézanne ) and Italy with its Renaissance frescos leave lasting impressions for a clear picture structure and a balanced color language. The second stay in Paris with the experience of Picasso , Henri Matisse and Cubism decisively influenced Barcsay's further work.

In 1929 in Szentendre , he combined a high-contrast spatial experience of nature and two-dimensional prismatic decorativeness (first as a charcoal drawing then in oil) with constructivist elements, without denying the connection to the realism of the lowland painters and the gloomy, structured landscapes of István Nagy . Attempts to use figurative. Representation of combining constructivist and expressive picture elements (e.g. three working-class girls , 1938, 200 x 135 cm, picture destroyed by Barcsay).

At the end of the 1930s, Barcsay turned to a darkly excited nature romanticism, primarily in still lifes and nocturnal visionary street scenes in which people only appear as distant figures (e.g. white lights , pastel / tempera, 1944).

After 1945, Barcsay was a leading exponent of the constructivist direction of the Hungarian European School, who continued his efforts to create free art despite the state prohibition of the school. With a conception of painting that was based on the new Hungarian architecture , Barcsay takes constructivity to the limit of non-figurative painting. B. in grid-like structured cityscapes.

At the beginning of the 1960s, his emotional lyricism and the tendency towards constructive abstraction reached a synthesis: the human longing for community comes to bear in the beauty and disruption of the figurative structure and the subtle colorism (mosaic design women I, in front of a golden background , oil / Holz, 1963).

The late work, on the other hand, appears to be greatly reduced in terms of form and color in order to express basic questions of human existence in a generally valid way (e.g. Anung und Vergehen, Öl, 1973, parts of a triptych). As heir to the Hungarian avant-garde, he developed an independent natural neo-constructivism from his close connection with Szentendre, which significantly enriched European modernity with its life-filled materiality and compactness. Barcsay also achieved international recognition with its art books translated into many languages. His best-known book publications are probably an illustrated book on the anatomy drawing "Művészeti anatómia" which was published by Córvin Verlag in 1967 and is still valid today as standard literature for art students.

Exhibited works (excerpt)

  • Baja: I. Türr Museum
  • Budapest: National Gallery: numerous drawings and paintings, a. a. Hilly Landscape, Oil, 1934; White Lights, 1944; Factory, oil / canvas, 1946; Image construction (blue variations), oil / canvas, 1966; In der Loge, oil / canvas, 1969. - National Theater: marble mosaic, 1966. - Historical museum: Brauner Kopf, oil / canvas, 1960; Mosaic design for Szentendre, 1968. - Újpest, swimming pool: Mosaik, 1974/75. - Rákoskeresztúr, registry office: mosaic wall.
  • Debrecen: Déri Museum
  • Kaposvár: Joszef Rippl-Rónai-Museum: works, late 20s / early 30s.
  • Kecskemét: Gallery: u. a. Estate.
  • London: British Museum
  • Miskolc: Technical University, Library: Women, Marble Mosaic, 1963.
  • Nagykanissza: G.Thury Museum - Picture Gallery
  • Pécs: Modern gallery: numerous landscapes and local views of Szentendre; Mosaic sketch (women), oil, 1968; Triptych I-III, oil, 1979.
  • Szeged: F.Móra Museum: Escape, Oil.
  • Székesfehérvár: City Museum: u. a. Rhythm of Forms, oil, 1971.
  • Szentendre: J.Barcsay Museum: permanent exhibition, around 150 paintings, 70 graphics, designs for frescoes, mosaics, carpets, bequests. - K.Ferenczy Museum: working-class girls, oil, 1928. - House of culture: mosaic, 1973–75.
  • Várpalota: Gy.Nagy Gallery

Exhibitions (excerpt)

  • 1925, '32, '36, '38, '41, '43, '66 Ernst Museum Budapest
  • 1932 Tamás Gallery, Budapest
  • 1944 Alkotás Art Club Budapest
  • 1947 Artist Gallery, Budapest
  • 1957 Salon of the National Gallery, Budapest
  • 1964 Dürer's Hall, Gyula
  • 1970, '82 Kunsthalle Budapest
  • 1975 Hatvan
  • 1976 Dunaújváros
  • 1983 F. Móra Museum, Szeged

Group exhibitions (excerpt)

  • 1927, '34 (Prize), '40 National Salon: KÉVE artist group, Budapest
  • 1985 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
  • 1929, '64 (Prize), '80 Biennale, Venice
  • 1937 V. & A. Museum: Hungarian Art, London
  • 1955–65 Hódmezoevásárhely (1955 award)
  • 1964 XXXII. Biennale, Venice (with Kálmán Csohány and György Segesdy)
  • 1966 Exposition de Peinture, Sculpture et Arts Graphiques Hongrois du Xe au XXe siecle, Paris
  • 1968 Hungarian contemporary art, Museum Volkwang, Essen
  • 1969 1st Constructivist Biennale, Nuremberg
  • 1975 Art Museum: Hungarian Art between 1900 and 1950, Lucerne
  • 1976 XXXVII. Venice Biennale
  • 1980 XXXIX. Venice Biennale
  • 1988 Contemporary Hungarian Art, Vienna

Bibliographical own work

  • Szükségem van a természetre (I need nature), in: Az új magyar művészet önarcképe, Budapest, 1946, 32
  • Ember és drapéria (Man and Drapery), Budapest, 1958
  • Forma és tér (Form and Space), Budapest, 1966
  • Művészeti anatómia, Budapest, 1967

Bibliography (selection)

  • Vo5, 1961.
  • MuevLex I, 1965.
  • MuevÉlet 1985.
  • LdK I, 1987.
  • MagyFestAdat, 1988.
  • Who's who in the socialist countries of Europe, I, M. 1989. - I. Genthon, Barcsay Jenö, Művészettörténeti Értesitő 7: 1958 (2) 104-115.
  • Ibid., Acta historiae artium 9: 1963, 371-392.
  • László, Gy .: Barcsay, Bp. 1963.
  • Németh, L .: Modern Hungarian Art, Budapest, 1969.
  • Petényi, K .: Barcsay Jenö, Budapest, 1974.
  • László, Gy .: Művészet 15: 1974 (2) 3-29.
  • Bojár, I .: Barcsay Jenö szentendrei mozaikja, Budapest, 1975.
  • Körner, E .: Szentendre - differenciált egység ?, Budapest, 1976, 6-9.
  • Czapó, G .: Művészek, műhelyek, Budapest, 1979, 15-18 (interview).
  • Salamon, N .: Művészet 25: 1984 (10) 36.
  • Kontha, S. (Ed.): Magyar művészet 1919-1945, I, Budapest, 1985.
  • Petényi, K .: Barcsay Jenö, Budapest, 1986.
  • Fire, G .: Művészet 28: 1987 (10) 50.
  • Lóska, I .: Művészet 29: 1988 (5) 51, 55.
  • Nagy, breeder: Művészet (9) 20-27.
  • Sík, C .: Művészet 31: 1990 (2) 25.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Judit Szabadi, Gyorgy Darabos: The Kieselbach collection: Hungarian painting 1900-1945, Tamás Kieselbach, 1996, ISBN 9636506043 , page 307
  2. ↑ Who's who in the socialist countries of Europe, I, M. 1989. - I. Genthon, Barcsay Jenő, Művészettörténeti Értesitő 7: 1958 (2) 104-115
  3. ↑ a b c d e SAUR, General Artists Lexicon, KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig, 1992.
  4. ↑ László, Gy .: Barcsay, Bp. 1963
  5. ↑ Bojár, I .: Barcsay Jenö szentendrei mozaikja, Budapest, 1975
  6. ↑ Művészeti ANATÓMIA, Budapest, 1967
personal data
SURNAME Barcsay, Jenő
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barcsay, Jeno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH April 2nd, 1988
Place of death Szentendre