László Fehér

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László Fehér, 2017

László Fehér (born March 17, 1953 in Székesfehérvár ) has been a major representative of Hungarian painting since the 1980s . 1980 and 1990 he represented Hungary at the Biennale in Venice . In his work, Fehér deals thematically with the loneliness of human existence and the history of Judaism .

Life

Fehér studied painting from 1971 to 1976 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest with Lajos Szentiványi and Ignác Kokas. He converted to the Jewish faith in the late 1970s . From 1978 to 1981 he received the Gyula Derkovits grant from the Ministry of Culture and Education. In 1980 he represented his country for the first time at the 39th Venice Biennale. In 1986 he received a scholarship from the Hungarian Academy in Rome . In 1990 he designed the Hungarian Magyar Pavilion at the 44th Venice Biennale. In 2000 Fehér made his first trip to Israel. László Fehér lives and works in Budapest and Tác.

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Genre painting, 1979
Under the bridge, 1989
On the street, 1991
Self-portrait, 2013
Generations, 2016

The first works in the style of photorealism were created in 1974 while studying at the Budapest Art Academy. Fehér initially dealt thematically with views of socialist everyday life such as the “worker of the month”, passers-by in the subway or in trams, but also photo templates from the family album that evoke a narrative thematization of personal experiences. These early paintings were mainly based on black and white contrasts.

A trip to Switzerland in 1981, which Hungarian citizens could only apply for every three years under strict conditions, ushered in a new period of painting in Fehér's work. In Basel he saw works by Henri Matisse , Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall for the first time , which questioned his photorealistic way of working. After returning to Hungary, his painting style changed to Expressionism . Fehér started a series about Jewish holidays like Yom Kippur and the Passover festival. There were also other topics from Jewish life that were taboo in Hungary at the beginning of the 1980s, and motifs that dealt with the annihilation of Judaism by the National Socialists , such as "Rekviem I." (1984, oil on linen, 250 × 195 cm, Magyar Nemzeti Galéria Collection, Budapest). The painting was created after the photo taken secretly by Alberto Errera in 1944 during the cremation of corpses in the crematoria of Auschwitz during the Hungary Action . Since then, people in Fehér's pictures have only appeared as outlines, becoming symbols of strangeness, isolation and transience. The paintings are characterized by a reduced formal language, based on colored surfaces and lines that are formulated in a multi-faceted manner. Individual image elements alternate between abstraction and photorealism.

“Fehér paints serious, timeless and unmoved visions of the ' condition humaine '. Nevertheless, his pictures, which reflect basic human sensitivities, are composed of everyday events and capture frozen moments in the flow of time, as it were. This gives rise to compositions that suggest that loneliness is an unchangeable fact of human existence, that the individual is locked in his inner world, that extreme vulnerability is an inevitable fact. ”( Lóránd Hegyi , 1992)

Awards (selection)

  • 1982: Prize of the Young Artists' Studio, Budapest
  • 1987: Jury Prize of the 19th International Painting Festival in Cagnes-sur-Mer
  • 1990: Second prize at the Young East European Painter Festival in Rotterdam
  • 1993: Mihály von Munkácsy Prize
  • 2000: Kossuth Prize
  • 2003: Hungarian-Jewish Culture Prize
  • 2006: Prima Prize in the Fine Arts Hungary category
  • 2007: The Ambassador of Hungarian Culture

Solo exhibitions (selection)

A detailed list of the individual and group exhibitions is available on the Fehér website.

  • 1977: László Fehér , Művelõdési Ház, Kincsesbánya
  • 1979: László Fehér , FÁÉV, Székesfehérvár
  • 1980: László Fehér , Stúdió Galéria Budapest
  • 1983: László Fehér , Kunsthalle , Budapest
  • 1986: László Fehér , Ifjúsági Ház, Székesfehérvár
  • 1988: László Fehér , New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum , Graz; Műcsarnok, Budapest
  • 1989: Dialógus II (with Franz Pichler), Fészek Galéria, Budapest
  • 1989: László Fehér , Galerie Panetta (with László Mulasics), Mannheim
  • 1989: László Fehér , Barbican Center and Concourse Gallery, London
  • 1990: 44th Venice Biennale, Magyar Pavilon
  • 1991: László Fehér , Gallery Synthesis, Linz
  • 1991: László Fehér , Galleria Paolo Majorana, Brescia
  • 1992: László Fehér , IFA Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1992: László Fehér , IFA Gallery, Berlin
  • 1992: László Fehér , Hungarian Culture and Information Center, Stuttgart
  • 1993: László Fehér , Fészek Galéria, Budapest
  • 1993: László Fehér , Fõvárosi Képtár, Kiscelli Múzeum, Budapest
  • 1993: László Fehér , Pécsi Galéria, Pécs
  • 1993: László Fehér , Galerie Gaudens Pedit, Innsbruck
  • 1994: László Fehér , Leslie Sacks Fine Arts, Los Angeles
  • 1994: László Fehér , Dambier Masset Gallery, Paris
  • 1996: László Fehér , Galerie Levy, Hamburg
  • 1996: László Fehér , Művész Galéria, Budapest
  • 1996: László Fehér , Galerie Zichy, Leiden
  • 1997: László Fehér , Fészek Galéria, Budapest
  • 1997: Leiden Culturstad '97 , Garage van de Blonkpanden Institute Hongrois, Leiden
  • 1997: László Fehér , OTP Bank Galéria, Bank Center, Budapest
  • 1997: László Fehér , Galerie OZ, Paris
  • 1997: László Fehér. Selected pictures 1991–1997 , Gallery CO10, Düsseldorf
  • 1997: László Fehér , Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
  • 1997: László Fehér. Retrospective , Stadtpalais Liechtenstein , Vienna
  • 1998: László Fehér , Holbein-Haus , Augsburg
  • 1999: László Fehér , Coutts Bank, Vienna
  • 1999: László Fehér (with Károly Kelemen) , Galerie Koczoh, Munich
  • 1999: László Fehér. Traces of Memory , Gallery CO10, Düsseldorf
  • 2000: László Fehér , Palais Schönborn-Batthyány , Vienna
  • 2001: László Fehér , Rippl-Rónai Múzeum , Kaposvár
  • 2001: László Fehér , Vadnai Galéria, Budapest
  • 2001: László Fehér. Connexion-Déconnexion , L'Esplanade, Saint-Etienne
  • 2001: László Fehér , Kunsthalle, Budapest
  • 2002: László Fehér , Art Garage, Zug
  • 2003: László Fehér , Fészek Galéria, Budapest
  • 2004: László Fehér , Szinyei Szalon, Budapest
  • 2004: László Fehér , Gallery CO10, Düsseldorf
  • 2005: László Fehér , KOGART, Budapest
  • 2007: László Fehér. Works 1975-2007: retrospective , Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
  • 2008: László Fehér. The Story of Judit , Orel Art Gallery, Paris
  • 2008: László Fehér. Paintings 2001-2005 , Hong Kong Arts Center, Pao Galleries
  • 2010: László Fehér 2007–2010 , Csók István Képtár, Székesfehérvár
  • 2011: László Fehér , Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne
  • 2012: László Fehér. Society (Fifth Ringturm Wrapping), Vienna Insurance Group, Ringturm , Vienna
  • 2013: László Fehér. Ellenfényben , Art Salon: Társalgó Galéria, Budapest
  • 2013: László Fehér. Pasztellek , Cultiris Galéria, Budapest
  • 2013: László Fehér. Selection from the Victor L. Menshikoff Collection , Kieselbach Galéria, Budapest
  • 2014: László Fehér, Roman Lipski , Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Łódź
  • 2014: László Fehér. Selection from the Victor L. Menshikoff Collection , REÖK Palace, Szeged
  • 2016: Works on Paper 2013-2015 , Platán Galéria, Polish Institute, Budapest
  • 2016: New Works , Festőterem, Sopron
  • 2016: New Works , Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
  • 2017: Móricz's boots , Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest
  • 2017: László Fehér , The Parkview Museum, Beijing
  • 2018: Memory Prints , Fészek Galéria, Budapest
  • 2018: Metaphysical Spaces , Galerie Andrea Madesta, Regensburg
  • 2019: Generations , Galéria Z, Bratislava

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1977: Fiatal Képzõművészek Stúdiójának éves kiállítása , Csók István Képtár, Székesfehérvár
  • 1980: 39th Venice Biennale, Magyar Pavilion
  • 1982: L'art hongrois contemporain , Musee Cantini, Marseille; Palais d'Europe, Menton; Palais Conservatoire, Lyon; Salon Régain, Clermont-Ferrand; Espace Pierre Cardin , Paris
  • 1985: Three generations of Hungarian painters , New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum , Graz
  • 1986: International Impact Art Festival , City Art Gallery, Kyoto
  • 1987: New sensitivity. Hungarian painting of the 80s , Villa Merkel ; Westfalenpark exhibition hall , Dortmund
  • 1987: Hungarian Myths , Regional Cultural Center Ursulinenhof , Linz
  • 1987: Old feelings - four Hungarian artists , Galerie Knoll, Vienna
  • 1989: Art Today in Hungary , New Gallery of the City of Linz ; Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen
  • 1989: Hungarian Avant-garde of the Eighties , Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul; Mannheim Art Association ; Mochental Castle , Ehingen; City Museum Oldenburg
  • 1989: Art of the last ten years , Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna ; Budapest Belvedere; Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg; Argelander Gallery, Bonn
  • 1989–1990: A museum on the move. The collection of the Neue Galerie Graz , Musée St. Pierre, Lyon
  • 1990: Empty rooms , Gallery of the Bavaria Film Studios , Munich
  • 1990: Four artists from Budapest – Borbás, Fehér, Mulasics, Szõnyei , gallery in the Georg Trakl Research and Memorial Center, Salzburg
  • 1990: Three artists from Hungary - Borbás, Fehér, Mulasics , Städtische Galerie, Wendlingen am Nekar; IFA Gallery, Bonn; Einsteinhaus, Ulm
  • 1990: Hungarian Contemporary Art , Stuart Levy Gallery, New York
  • 1990: Festival of Young Artists of Eastern Europe , Rotterdam
  • 1990: Signs in the River , Museum of Modern Art, Vienna
  • 1990: Hungarian avant-garde in painting in the 80s , town hall, Fellbach
  • 1990: Art of the 80s from the collection of the Neue Galerie , Neue Galerie at the Landesmuseum Joanneum , Graz
  • 1991: Jumps in time - artworks in dialogue , New Gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
  • 1991: Pools , Stuart Levy Gallery, New York
  • 1991: Positions - Hungarian art of the 90s , artist workshop, Munich
  • 1991: Art Europe , Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1991: Free Worlds - Metaphors and Realites in Contemporary Hungary Art , Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Musée d'art contemporain Montréal
  • 1991: Budapest Contemporary Hungarian Art in Dublin , Gallegher Gallery, Dublin
  • 1991: Hungarian Modern Art , Seoul Art Center and Museum, Seoul
  • 1993: Hungarica – Arte Ungherese degli anni ´80 e sue Origini , Palazzo Braschi , Rome
  • 1993: Hungary. Time. Art , Konrad Adenauer Foundation ; Gallery of the Bayerische Landesbank , Munich
  • 1993: Confrontations, new acquisitions 1990–1993 , Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna
  • 1993: Hungary: Before and After , IMF Visitors' Center, Washington DC
  • 1994: Commentary on Europe , Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
  • 1996: Myth, Memoria, Historia , Fõvárosi Képtár – Kiscelli Múzeum, Budapest
  • 1996: A Legacy envisioned. A Century of Modern Art to celebrate Hungary's 1100 years: 896–1996 , Világbank Székház, Washington
  • 1997: Mythos, Memoria, Historia , Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
  • 1998: Sensitivies , European Academy for the Arts, London
  • 1998: Avant-garde in the 20th century , New Gallery of the City of Linz
  • 1998: Nomen est omen , Kunsthalle Steyr
  • 1998: Rózsa Kör , Ernst Múzeum , Budapest
  • 1999: Contemporary Art , Museum Bochum
  • 1999: Contemporary art from Hungary , Fellbach City Gallery and Town Hall Foyer, Fellbach
  • 1999: Aspects. Positions 50 Years of Art from Central Europe 1949–1999 , Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna ; Liechtenstein City Palace ; 20er house , Vienna
  • 2000: L'Autre moitié de l'Europe , Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume , Paris
  • 2001: Zeitbrücke , Museum of Modern Art - Wörlen Foundation , Passau
  • 2001: Langzame Opmerkingen , Sint-Jorispond Centrum Elzenveld, Antwerp
  • 2002: Art - before and after the fall of the Wall , Brandenburger Tor Foundation in the Max Liebermann House, Berlin
  • 2002: 9 × 9 , Városi Museum, Leiden
  • 2003: Idylls and Disasters , Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
  • 2004: Passage Europa , Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienenne
  • 2005: Hungarian Artists: An Exhibition of Passion, Interludes and Progress , Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta / Florida
  • 2006: Current Art from Hungary , Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum Foundation , Ulm
  • 2007: Expressionistic Tendencies in Hungarian Contemporary Art 1980–2007 , Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum , Cunovo
  • 2007: Works of Passion. The Nancy G. Brinker Collection of Hungarian Art , The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood / Ohio
  • 2008: Works of Passion. The Nancy G. Brinker Collection of Hungarian Art , Poenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA,
  • 2008: Cycle 3.0 Hungary. Contemporary Art Hungary-Lower Austria , Lilienfeld Abbey, Lilienfeld
  • 2009: Anne Frank . 80 éves , Galéria IX, Budapest,
  • 2009: Akzent Hungary, Hungarian art from the collection of the Neue Galerie Graz , Graz
  • 2009: Creating Freedom: From Post-Revolutionary to Post-Communist Art in Hungary, Selection of Forty Years of Hungarian Art from Nancy G. Brinker Collection , Boston University, Sherman Gallery, Boston, USA,
  • 2010: Cities on the River , Városi Művészeti Múzeum, Győr
  • 2010: Olomouc Central European Forum III: Hungary , Olomouc Museum of Modern Art, Olomouc
  • 2011: Una Visita , Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti di Torino, Turin
  • 2011: East of Eden. Photorealism: Versions of Reality , Ludwig Múzeum - Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum, Budapest
  • 2012: Péter Nádas . In the darkroom of writing. Transitions between text, image and thinking , Kunsthaus Zug
  • 2013: From our own collection: Landscape Pictures, Bochum Art Museum
  • 2013: Painting I - Eclectic affinities , Frissiras Museum, Athens
  • 2013: Magányos táj , Déri Museum , Debrecen
  • 2013: Testobjektív , Ferenczy Museum, Szentendre
  • 2014: Painters in Mirror. Hungarian Self-Portraits from the Uffizi Gallery , Budapesti Történeti Múzeum, Budapest
  • 2014: Budapest, Patron City of the Arts - The Municipal Gallery , Új Budapest Galéria, Budapest
  • 2014: Contemporaries: Collectors and Artists - Hungarian and International Art from Private Collections in Hungary, 2010–2014 , Új Budapest Galéria, Budapest
  • 2015: Siliconvalse Hungarian Reality , The Brno House of Arts, Brno
  • 2015: Vacation Simulator , Kortárs Művészeti Intézet - Dunaújváros
  • 2016: Wasted Time , MűvészetMalom, Szentendre
  • 2016: Ideals and Artworks. A selection of works from the collection of Ludwig Museum Budapest , Albanian National Gallery of Arts, Tirana
  • 2016: Rustle of Angel Wings. Angels in European Art , Muzeum Umeni Olomouc, Olomouc
  • 2017: Fotó / Szintézis / Photo / Synthesis , Szombathelyi Képtár, Szombathely
  • 2017: Real Hungary, Collegium Hungaricum Vienna , Vienna
  • 2017: The Artist's Voice , The Parkview Museum, Singapore
  • 2018: Intriguing Uncertainties , The Parkview Museum, Singapore
  • 2018: New Horizons of European Painting III: The Action of the Senses , Frissiras Museum, Athens
  • 2019: Robinson's Ship , Galeria Miejska we Wrocławiu - Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu, Wrocław
  • 2019: Public Private Affairs , MűvészetMalom, Szentendre
  • 2019: Customize , Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

Works in public collections (selection)

Hungary

  • Ludwig Múzeum - Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum, Budapest
  • Hungarian National Gallery , Budapest
  • Zsidó Múzeum, Budapest
  • Fővárosi Képtár - Kiscelli Múzeum, Budapest
  • Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, Budapest
  • Déri Museum , Debrecen
  • Városi Képtár, Győr
  • Rippl Rónai Múzeum, Kaposvár
  • Ottó Herman Múzeum, Miskolc
  • Paksi Képtár, Paks
  • Janus Pannonius Múzeum, Pécs
  • Deák Gyűjtemény, Székesfehérvár
  • Szent István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár
  • Szombathelyi Képtár, Szombathely

Austria

Germany

Canada

  • Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Greece

  • Frissiras Museum, Athens

Finland

  • City Gallery, Hämeenlinna

Italy

Norway

  • National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo

Poland

Singapore

  • Parkview Museum, Singapore

Work documentation (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Gabi Czöppan, Annette Lettau, Venice Biennale . In: Pan. Journal for Art and Culture, No. 8/1990, pp. 37–41.
  • Hungary. Time. Art . Exhibition catalog with texts by László Beke, Katalin Néray, Meinrad Maria Grewenig. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Sankt Augustin 1992, pp. 30–35, 67–70 (without ISBN).
  • Boris Hohmeyer, Vienna: László Fehér. Shadows in a hostile environment . In: art - Das Kunstmagazin , No. 1 / January 1998, pp. 72–73.

Web links

Commons : László Fehér  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ László Fehér in the Central European Art Database, accessed on July 26, 2019
  2. ↑ List of exhibiting artists on artmap.com, accessed on July 26, 2019
  3. ↑ see: Boris Hohmeyer, Vienna: László Fehér. Shadows in a hostile environment . In: art - Das Kunstmagazin , No. 1 / January 1998, p. 72
  4. ↑ Interview with László Fehér on irequireart.com from June 9, 2016, accessed on July 26, 2019
  5. ↑ Interview with László Fehér on irequireart.com from June 9, 2016, accessed on July 26, 2019
  6. ↑ see: Lóránd Hegyi , László Fehér . Exhibition catalog, ed. by Alexander Tolnay and Monika Winkler, Institute for Foreign Relations , Stuttgart 1992 (without ISBN) p. 7.
  7. ↑ see illustration on p. 31 in: Fehér László . With a text by Éva Forgács, Budapest 1998, ISBN 963-04-9868-5
  8. ↑ Exhibition review from September 23, 2018 on Mittelbayerische.de, accessed on July 26, 2019
  9. ↑ László Fehér on the website of the Ludwig Museum Hungary, accessed on July 26, 2019
  10. ↑ List of exhibitions on the artist's website
  11. ↑ László Fehér on the website of the Museum Ludwigs Ungarn, accessed on July 26, 2019
  12. ^ László Fehér on the museum website
  13. ^ László Fehér on the museum website
  14. ^ Report on the collection of the Neue Galerie Graz, accessed on July 26, 2019
  15. ^ László Fehér on the Mumok website
  16. ^ László Fehér on the website of the Museum Bochum
  17. ↑ László Fehér on the Parkview Museum website
  18. ↑ Article about the exhibition at the Parkview Museum, accessed on August 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Fehér, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Székesfehérvár