Miklos Farkashazy. 1895-1964. European Modernist. A Selection of Works on Paper.
San Francisco: 1989. Wittenborn Art Books distribution. 4to. 19.5 x 23.8 cm. Wraps. 44pp. 33 monochrome plates. New condition.... Born in 1895 in Budapest, Miklos Farkashazy - the great-grandson of the founder of the Herend china factory, Mór Farkasházi-Fischer - was an eminent personage of 20th century Hungarian art. Art history keeps tab on the artist, who died in 1964, as a graphic artist and painter, although his patent for colored linear relief called "fadofit" earned him a name in decorative art as well. His life-work progressing from impressionism through cubism to the abstract is characterized by linear bravura, dazzling colors and a whirl of artistic themes and techniques....
Though from 1915 he exhibited at the National Salon in Budapest for several times, his artistic career actually took off in Munich in 1922, Encouraged by one of the greatest Hungarian art collectors and owner of several El Greco paintings, Marcell Nemes, he left the Hungary of a counter-revolutionary setup for the capital Bavaria, where he was drawn towards applied arts. After the initial tries at trick films, he illustrated books and periodicals, designed posters. His first one-man show opened in the Minerva Room (Werbebüro Minerva) in Munich showing his sweeping, animated drawings, book covers and posters somewhat in the style of the art nouveau....In the late ’30s Farkashazy mainly worked in tempera and created large pastels. Turning his back upon Hungary drifting towards the war, he began painting nostalgic Italian landscapes, themselves a criticism of the age. In 1938 his art was declared "pestilent" and being Jewish, he was hardly allowed to exhibit. In 1944 Hungarian fascists took him off to forced labor, from where he escaped ill. His atelier was hit by a bomb in the war, destroying all his things. Yet he and his wife did not give up; he was the first to show his the first to show his extant and new works to the Budapest public. Up to 1950 when the absolute rule of socialist realism came to stay he had several exhibits as a social democratic painter, and the papers also reproduced his works frequently. He made a sgrafitto of 50 square metres together with his wife for a school wall, and he published an album of his linos. After 1950, however, he was again barred of all possibilities. Therefore the outcome of his last burst of innovative activity, a series of abstract works, only became known several decades after his death. -Today, Miklos Farkashazy is one of the most sought-after artists in art -trade, his paintings being preserved, apart from museums, in the major Hungarian art collections of the world from Zurich to San Francisco.
He was a painter and graphic artist. He pursued his studies in Budapest as the pupil of Manó VESZTRÓCZY. Later he studied further at the Academy in Munich. Since 1916 he had several exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. At the beginning he made colourful decorative tint-drawings and pastels, later also oil-paintings. His works are characterized by vigorous contours, decorative colouring and stylized interpretation. Item #16-4334
ISBN: 0815001827
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