Oscar Asboth

Oscar von Asboth (born November 11, 1925 in Budapest , † February 12, 1991 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian painter. who is counted among the representatives of the so-called "metaphysical realism".

Life

Grave at Maria Enzersdorf cemetery

Oscar Asboth trained as a technician and aerodynamicist and worked on rocket tests.

It was only after the Second World War that he came into contact with art and studied graphics at the Budapest School of Applied Arts with Professor Szecsy-Hacker. Asboth emigrated in 1956 during the Hungarian popular uprising from the then communist Hungary to Austria, where he worked as a freelance graphic artist, first in Mödling, then later in Vienna, among other things as a model maker and freelance artist.

He was a member of the World Federation of Hungarian Artists in New York, a member of the Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art, the Gallery Club of Encounter in Linz, a member of the Mödlinger Künstlerbund and a member of the Arpad Academy in Cleveland. Asboth had been a member of the Danube To Peaceful Shores Lodge since 1972 .

Asboth is buried at the romantic cemetery in Maria Enzersdorf .

Works

Austria Medal 1977 on behalf of the tourism industry

Block of two from the Steyr 1000 brands

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Club of Encounters. Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art, Landeskulturzentrum Ursulinenhof Linz. 1969 - 1984. Editor Lydia Rauch , layout Erich Buchegger , catalog with single sheets of the artists of the association in a cardboard slipcase.
^ Günter K. Kodek: The chain of hearts remains closed. Members of the Austrian Masonic lodges 1945 to 1985. Löcker, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85409-706-8 , p. 11 .

personal data
SURNAME	Asboth, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Asboth, Oscar of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	February 12, 1991
Place of death	Vienna

[Galerie-cdb-Linz-1] Club of Encounters. Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art, Landeskulturzentrum Ursulinenhof Linz. 1969 - 1984. Editor Lydia Rauch , layout Erich Buchegger , catalog with single sheets of the artists of the association in a cardboard slipcase.

[2] Günter K. Kodek: The chain of hearts remains closed. Members of the Austrian Masonic lodges 1945 to 1985. Löcker, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85409-706-8 , p. 11 .