József Egry
József Egry (born March 15, 1883 in Zalaújlak , Kingdom of Hungary , † June 19, 1951 in Badacsonytomaj on Lake Balaton) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.
The son of day laborers went to the Munich Art Academy for a few months in 1904 , and in 1905 he attended the Académie Julian in Paris . From 1906 to 1908 he was a student of Károly Ferenczy and Pál Szinyei Merse at the local art school in Budapest . In 1907 he received a state grant for his painting “Before the Asylum” . In 1911 he went to Belgium. There he was particularly influenced by the works of Constantin Meunier . As a soldier in the First World War, he fell seriously ill in 1916 and came to convalescence at Lake Balaton , which was his home for the rest of his life. On the south-western bank, first in the small town of Keszthely , then in 1928 in the shadow of a former volcanic mountain, the painter settled in the small wine village of Badacsony . There he became the painter of the lake with his expressionistic painting style .
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Photo around 1912, bronze statue at Badacsony harbor
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He died there in 1951. In 1973 his house in Badacsony was converted into a museum in his memory, which still exists today (2009).
literature
- Károly Lyka : Egry, József . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 387 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Egry, József . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 16 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Egry, József |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moholy-Egry, József |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zalaújlak , Kingdom of Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1951 |
| Place of death | Badacsony |