Ľudo fief

Ľudo fiefdom (around 2008)

Ľudovít Lehen (born  June 3, 1925 in Banská Bystrica , † May 12, 2014 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak painter , sculptor and chess composer .

biography

Ľudo Lehen studied from 1949 to 1955 at the University of Fine Arts in Bratislava with D. Milly and V. Hložník. In 1955 he won first prize in the Czechoslovakian competition in realistic drawing. He was inspired in the Cubist style by Pablo Picasso . His works have been exhibited in Brussels, China and the USSR.

In the years in which every young artist longs for life to the fullest and for artistic creation, his life path was suddenly interrupted from one day to the next. He fell victim to a constructed, political process. Until 1968 he was imprisoned in Leopoldov for six years . Two of his exhibitions took place in Leopoldov in 1966 and 1967.

After returning to normal life, he became a completely different Ľudo fiefdom. He had remained an artist, but he had built his own world in which, as he put it, he created “for himself”. The reason for this, actually lifelong “illegality” of the udo fiefdom is the blows of fate that struck him at a young age, at the beginning of his career.

For the last few years he has lived in Petržalka , a district of Bratislava. His apartment was also his studio and now and then also an exhibition room. The woman was at the center of his artistic focus. Sometimes she looks like his daughter, other times she has the face of Venus or a girl in local clothing; the figures are stylized and refer to some archaic features that occur in non-European art.

Atelier Ľudo Lehens (2008)

Exhibitions in Slovakia

• 1967 Leopoldov
• 1968 Leopoldov
• 1973 Trenčín - Art Protisy
• 1985 Šaľa - pastel
• 1998 Galanta - extract from his works
• 2001 Bratislava file
• 2003 Bratislava
• 2010 Bratislava

Chess composition

Lehen began composing chess problems in 1977 at the age of 52 . First and foremost, he dealt with two moves , auxiliary matting tasks and fairy tale chess . He published numerous joint works with Juraj Brabec, but also others with Peter Gvozdják and Jozef Taraba. His preferred directions were multi-phase changes, the Dombrowskis and Hannelius themes.

Web links

Commons : Ludo Lehen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Compositions by Ľudo Lehen on the PDB server of " Schwalbe - German Association for Problem Chess "