Rezső Bálint (14 October 1885 – 18 November 1945, in
Budapest
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) was a
Hungarian painter
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known for his landscape paintings.
He began as a printer and later he studied painting under the guidance of
Manó Vesztróczy and
Ferenc Szablya-Frischauf. In 1906 he continued his studies of painting in
Nagybánya
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(Baia Mare, Romania) and later in
Paris
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. He had his first exhibition in Budapest in 1909. In 1910 and 1911 he rented a studio jointly with A. Modigliani on Montparnasse in Paris.
In 1911 and 1912 he worked with an extensive number of artists at
Kecskemét. In 1919 he published a portfolio entitled ''
Shapes, Patches and Lines'' presenting ten stone-drawings preceded by an introduction by the Hungarian poet,
Dezső Kosztolányi
Dezső Kosztolányi (; March 29, 1885 – November 3, 1936) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, translator and also a speaker of Esperanto. He wrote in all literary genres, from poetry to essays to theatre plays. Building his own style, he used ...
.
After 1920 he lived in
Izbég a municipality of
Szentendre
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where he mostly painted landscapes. The
Hungarian National Gallery today contains three of his pictures: "Mother with Her Child", "Interieur", "A Hospital Scene".
External links and sources
Fine Arts in Hungary
1885 births
1945 deaths
Artists from Budapest
20th-century Hungarian painters
20th-century Hungarian male artists
Hungarian male painters
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