Róbert Berény

Memorial plaque in Városmajor

Róbert Berény (born March 18, 1887 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † September 10, 1953 in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter.

Life

Róbert Berény was initially self-taught and painted in the Munkácsy style as early as 1902 . He studied from 1905 to 1907 in Paris at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens . He visited the salon of Gertrude Stein and was under the artistic impression of Henri Matisse and Paul Cezanne . In 1906 he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and in the spring of 1907 and 1908 in the Fauves' Hall of the Salon des Indépendants , and aroused the interest of the critic Louis Vauxcelles . He went on a study trip through Italy, on which Bertalan Pór accompanied him. He was again in France in 1908 and again in Italy in 1911. Influenced by the Fauvists , the artist group Nyolcak (The Eight) was founded in 1907 by Dezső Czigány , Béla Czóbel , Károly Kernstok , Ödön Márffy , Dezső Orbán , Bertalan Pór and Lajos Tihanyi , in which he was the most radical innovator, alongside Tihanyi. In 1907 he painted the self-portrait with a cylinder , in 1913 he created the main work of his expressionist period with the portrait of Béla Bartók .

Berény was interested in music, was involved in the Budapest Association for New Music (UMZE) and wrote music reviews. The editor-in-chief of Nyugat Ignotus , the doctor Sándor Radó , met in his studio in Városmajor and discussed the findings of psychoanalysis with Sándor Ferenczi . He was drafted as a soldier in the First World War from 1914 to 1918, with this turning point his time as a painter was interrupted and the artistically most productive and radical period was over. After the end of the war, László Moholy-Nagy was a student in his painting school. He supported the Republican Asters Revolution and the Hungarian Soviet Republic , in which he became a specialist advisor to the Directory of Art and Music. He created one of the famous posters of the Soviet Republic To arms! To the weapons! . After the crackdown and the onset of the White Terror, he had to flee to Vienna .

Berény stayed with a large group of Hungarian emigrants in Berlin , but had a creative crisis as a painter. He illustrated for the Berliner Tageblatt , designed sets for the film and played in an orchestra. His string quartet was premiered in 1922 at a music evening by the November group .

In 1926 Berény went back to Budapest and concentrated on advertising graphics and posters, for example for soap and cigarettes, but also began to paint again. In 1937 he set up a studio and a painting school in Zebegény , the inventory of which was destroyed in 1945 by the effects of the war. In 1948 he was appointed professor at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts . Berény received the Kossuth Prize in 1951 and the Munkácsy-díj in 1952.

Grave on the Farkasréti temető

Exhibitions

• Gergely Barki, Evelyn Benesch, Zoltán Rockenbauer (eds.): The eight. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-07157-5

Trivia

One of his masterpieces, the Sleeping Woman with a Black Vase, which was thought to be lost for eight decades, was used as a stage set in the film Stuart Little (1999) and was rediscovered in 2009 by the Hungarian art historian Gergely Barki while watching the film.

literature

• Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 4, 1971, Col. 604-605 (en)
• I. Nagy: Berény, Róbert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , pp. 279 f.
• Berény, Róbert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 175-176 .
• Krisztina Passuth : Meeting places of the avant-garde East Central Europe 1907–1930 . From the Hungarian: Anikó Harmath. Budapest: Balassi 2003 (first Hungarian 1998)
• Krisztina Passuth : A Nyolcak festészete . Budapest, Corvina Könyvkiadó, 1967
• Olga Székely-Kovacs: Caricatures from the eighth Psychoanalytic Congress in Salzburg, Easter 1924 . Leipzig: Internat. Psychoanalyst. Publishing house, 1924

Web links

Commons : Róbert Berény  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Róbert Berény in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Róbert Berény in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Berény Róbert , in Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon (hu)
• Róbert Berény , at Fine Arts in Hungary (en)
• Berény Róbert , at elib (hu)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For biographical information, see General Artists Dictionary
2. ↑ ^{a b c} The eight. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity , 2012, p. 180 f
3. ↑ Self-portrait with a cylinder in: Die Acht. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity , 2012, p. 88 and p. 89
4. ↑ Portrait of Béla Bartók in: The eight. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity , 2012, p. 21
5. ↑ Portrait of Ignotus in: The eight. A Nyolcak. Hungary's Highway to Modernity , 2012, p. 149
6. ↑ Krisztina Passuth: Meetings of the Avant-garde East Central Europe 1907–1930 , 2003, p. 68
7. ↑ Fegyverbe! Fegyverbe! , at the Hungarian Wikipedia
8. ^ Kunstforum Wien : The eight. Hungary's Highway to Modernity ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at: Bank Austria Kunstforum, 2012 
9. ^ Stuart Little leads art historian to long-lost Hungarian masterpiece. The Guardian , November 27, 2014, accessed December 3, 2014 . 
10. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 1, 2014, accessed on December 3, 2014