Rudolf Diener-Dénes

Rudolf Diener-Dénes (born January 28, 1889 in Nyíregyháza , † August 3, 1956 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian painter .

Life

In 1909 he studied first at the School of Applied Arts, then he was a student at the School of Applied Arts. In 1910 he became a student at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts under Károly Ferenczy . In 1911 he took part in an exhibition of this group. Between 1914 and 1916 he continued to work as an autodidact. From this time on he took part in artistic activities such as the "Nemzeti Szalon" in 1914 and the "Exhibition of Young Artists". In 1917 he painted in the artists' colony in Kecskemét , which was directed by Béla Iványi Grünwald, later he studied in the Plein-Air school of József Rippl-Rónai . In 1918 he took part in the exhibition in the "A Ma (III) Demonsztrativ Kiállitás". In 1924 the first solo exhibition followed in the Belvedere Gallery in Budapest.

Between 1924 and 1931 he lived in Paris , where he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière . Study visits followed in Brittany, Normandy and England. In 1931 he returned to Hungary. From this time on he often stayed in Szentendre .

On January 10, 1937, the Fränkel Gallery opened a large solo exhibition; 36 works were on display. From 1938 there was public anti-Semitic hostility. In 1944 he was deported to a labor camp in Hatvan, then he was in the ghetto until liberation in January 1945. In 1946 he was awarded the Szinyei Society's Grand Prize. For a long time after the Second World War, his art was treated not only with indifference, but also with disregard, as he did not paint in the style of realistic socialism in accordance with the ideas of the communist party. In 1952 he was branded as a bourgeois, impressionist and decadent painter by the party commission on behalf of Marton Horváth of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party . The fact that the Minister of Education presented him with the “Pro Arte” medal on his sixtieth birthday in 1949 hardly changed this long period of oblivion. In 1956 he succumbed to his heart disease.

literature

• 1976: François Gachot, Diener-Dénes Rudolf Corvina, Budapest 1976 (A művészet kiskönyvtára 104)
• 2011: Péter and Zsófia Diener, Diener-Dénes Rudolf Corvina, Budapest 2010 ISBN 978-963-13-5945-9