Tibor Csernus

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Tibor Csernus [ ˈtibor ˈʧɛrnuʃ ] (born June 27, 1927 in the village of Kondoros in southern Hungary , † September 7, 2007 in Paris ) is a Hungarian painter . He lived in Paris since 1964.

Csernus studied with Aurél Bernáth (1895–1982), one of the most important Hungarian painters of his time. Initially orienting himself towards his teacher, he developed his own painting style early on.

In 1952 he received the Munkácsy Prize for his painterly achievements, and he was also regularly involved in the major national art exhibitions in Budapest until the end of the 1950s. Four years later, at the time of the Hungarian uprising in 1956, he received the Derkovits grant. In 1957 he worked on the jury of the Budapest Spring Salon.

Because he opposed “ socialist realism ” in painting, Csernus provoked a scandal at an art exhibition in Budapest in 1955 . He was then threatened that he would never be allowed to exhibit pictures in Hungary again.

In 1964 Csernus fled to France because of the reprisals of state cultural policy in communist Hungary. When he arrived in Paris, he was initially largely unsuccessful as a painter, as he was considered too conservative and not enough avant-garde in the eyes of the western art scene .

Since his paintings were almost not for sale at the time, Csernus worked as a book illustrator. In doing so, he developed a predilection for the science fiction genre. Through this work and his enthusiasm for Caravaggio's paintings , he further developed his style, which he calls magical realism and which has earned his art great recognition worldwide.

In 1985, a highly acclaimed exhibition of Caravaggio's paintings took place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . At the same time an exhibition of the works of Csernus was shown. The similarity of the painting styles, especially with regard to the light and the color tones, became particularly evident through the comparison.

At the end of the “ Cold War ” in 1989, Tibor Csernus was honored at the age of sixty-one with a retrospective in the Műcsarnok art gallery in Budapest.

In 1997 he was awarded the Kossuth Prize in the field of culture , the highest state award in Hungary.

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  1. ↑ a b Panorama Museum, Biographical Notes on Tibor Csernus by Gerd Lindner (Director of the Panorama Museum) [1]
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SURNAME Csernus, Tibor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Kondoros , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2007
Place of death Paris