Vera Solymosi-Thurzó

Vera Solymosi-Thurzo

Vera Solymosi-Thurzó (pronunciation: ʃojmoʃi-tuɾzo :, * February 21, 1925 in Budapest ; † June 2, 2016 in Rum , Vas County , Hungary ) was a German-Hungarian artist , academic painter and graphic designer . Her almost 200 paintings have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Germany, the USA and Hungary.

Career

After graduating from high school, she studied painting and teaching at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest (1945–1948), art history at the University of Munich (1957) and painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1957–1960).

She lived in Budapest until 1956, then in Munich; between 1961 and 1962 she did a study visit to the USA. In 1989 she moved to Berlin, where she worked for three years and was active in the Spandauer Kunstverein . In 1992 she moved into a studio in Rum , Hungary , where she created numerous other paintings until her death.

O. Respighi: Pini di Roma, 1974, oil, 98 × 98 cm

Works

• Almost 200 paintings (oil on canvas, watercolor , tempera , gouache and mixed media )
• Over 5000 illustrations in over 200 volumes from publishers in Munich and New York
• Greeting cards and labels from publishers in Munich, London, Paris, New York

What makes them special are musically inspired paintings: they are exhibited with headphones; the works of Carl Orff , Johann Sebastian Bach , Tomaso Albinoni , Edvard Grieg etc. can be heard while viewing the pictures.

Exhibitions (selection)

1960	Municipal Gallery Rubinstein, Munich
1961, 1966, 1968, 1969	Continental Art Gallery, New York
1962	International Art Exhibition, Bridgeport (Connecticut)
1969	Continental Fine Art Gallery, New York
1976	Augsburg Town Hall , Augsburg
1977	Galeria el Muro, Caracas (Venezuela)
1981	City Hall, Munich
1985	Euro Gallery, Riedt-Erlen (Switzerland)
1986, 1989	Museum, Nordenham
1986	Raiffeisenbank, Reichersbeuern (Bavaria)
1987-1998	Culture area, Indersdorf
1989	Sparkassengalerie, Bad Tölz
1989	Gallery at the Fuggerei, Augsburg
1991-1994	Free Berlin Art Exhibition, Exhibition Grounds, Berlin
1991	St. Nikolai Church , Berlin-Spandau
1991	Spandau Citadel , Berlin-Spandau
1991	Local history museum, Bad Tölz
1993	Kafka Margit High School, Budapest
1994	Budapest
1998	Nádasdy Castle , Sárvár
1998	Culture House, Rum (Hungary)
1999	Music agapé, Hotel Marriott, Budapest
2000	Picture gallery, Szombathely
2000-2001	Municipal showroom, Körmend
2001	Petőfi Sándor House of Culture, Csepreg (Hungary)
2002, 2004, 2007	Picture gallery, Szombathely
2005	Ikervár Culture House (Hungary)
2005	Savaria Museum, Szombathely
2006	Event house gallery, Szombathely
2006	Sports house gallery, Szombathely
2006	Mosonmagyaróvár
2007	National Theater, Győr
2007	Twin tower , Kőszeg
2007	Savaria Museum, RegioArt Szombathely

literature

• Brigitte Altenau: Our aquarium (drawings by Vera Solymosi-Thurzó and the author), Wilhelm Andermann, Munich 1960.
• Helena Rubinstein Prize: Women in Modern Life.
• Library of Congress catalogs. Volume 42, University of Michigan, 1970, p. 585
• Axel-Alexander Ziese: Master of the fine arts. Volume 2, Verlag arte Factum, Nuremberg 1985, ISBN 3-923326-46-7 , pages 178-183
• Axel-Alexander Ziese: General encyclopedia of artists in the fine and creative arts of the late XX. Century. Volume 2, Verlag arte Factum, Nuremberg 1986/87, ISBN 3-923326-81-5 , page 441
• Seregélyi György: Magyar festők és grafikusok adattára. Életrajzi lexikon az 1800-1988 között alkotó festő - és grafikusművészekről. (Collection of data from Hungarian painters and graphic artists. Biographical encyclopedia of painters and graphic artists who worked between 1800 and 1988.), Szeged, 1988, page 552
• Képző- és iparművészek Vas megyében (visual and industrial artist in Vas County), Szombathely, 1994
• Kortárs magyar művészeti lexikon (Contemporary Hungarian Art Lexicon , in Hungarian), Volume 3, Enciklopédia Kiadó, 2001, ISBN 9638477466 , page 385

Web links

• lex-art.de
• Textbook Library (in Hungarian)
• Mrs. Vera's gallery
• 3D gallery