Lajos Vajda
Lajos Vajda (born August 6, 1908 in Zalaegerszeg , Austria-Hungary , † September 7, 1941 in Budakeszi ) was a Hungarian surrealist painter .
Life
Lajos Vajda studied painting from 1927 to 1930 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest under István Csók . He then studied from 1930 to 1934 with Dezső Korniss in Paris under Fernand Léger . There he became known with cubism and surrealism .
Back in Hungary he settled in Szentendre . From 1936 he was friends with Endre Bálint . Following the example of the composers Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály , he collected folk art motifs from the area around Szentendre and Szigetmonostor in northern Hungary for processing in his future works.
Hints of religious (Catholic, Orthodox and Mosaic) symbols, folk art motifs and abstract elements appeared in his pictures. His last abstract works showed the premonition of the horrors of World War II . He died of tuberculosis at the age of 33.
Lajos Vajda left a collection of works that influenced all of Hungary's abstract art after 1945. In 1972 a Vajda Lajos studio was founded. A museum dedicated to him was built in Szentendre.
In 2002, Axel Rohlfs organized the exhibition of the works of Hungarian artists Lajos Vajda and Endre Bálint related to the Holocaust in the Mü-Terem Galéria, Budapest .
literature
- Vajda, Lajos . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 3-4 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Vajda, Lajos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vajda Lajos (Hungarian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian surrealist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zalaegerszeg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 1941 |
| Place of death | Budakeszi |