Szentendre Artists' Colony existed from the 1920s to the 1930s in the northern part of
Szentendre, Hungary.
Background
The colony was founded by the
Szentendre Artists' Association. They followed the tradition of the 19th century
Nagybánya artists' colony
The Nagybánya artists' colony was an art colony in Nagybánya, a town in eastern Hungary that became Baia Mare in Romania after World War I. The colony started as a summer retreat for artists, mainly painters from Simon Hollósy's ''szabadiskola' ...
but combined it with the modern styles of the era, mainly
surrealism and
constructivism
Constructivism may refer to:
Art and architecture
* Constructivism (art), an early 20th-century artistic movement that extols art as a practice for social purposes
* Constructivist architecture, an architectural movement in Russia in the 1920s a ...
. From the 1930s onwards, the creative art of Lajos Vajda and Dezső Korniss is most directly linked to Szentendre, respectively. For an island monastery. They primarily painted the natural and built environment of this landscape and drew their motifs from the traditions of the inhabitants living here. Among the modern styles, they created primarily in the spirit of surrealism and non-figurative art. Imre Ámos also contributed to the establishment of surrealism in Szentendre, his admirers called him the "Hungarian Chagall". Due to their influence, many other artists were connected to Szentendre and his surroundings, for example Piroska Szántó, Endre Bálint, or his friend János Tornyai also painted in Szentendre in the early 1930s. István Ilosvai Varga, Miklós Göllner, Andor Kántor, Pál Miháltz, Béla Czóbel, Erzsébet Vaszkó, Jenő Barcsay, János Kmetty, Jenő Kerényi, Pál Deim, and László Balogh belonged more to the constructive trend. The creators of the Szentendre artist colony together with all the artists from Szentendre organized collective exhibitions in Budapest and Szentendre.
Members
The most important painters of the site
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Barcsay Jenő
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Deim Pál
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Kerényi Jenő
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Körniss Dezső
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Vajda Lajos
Other members
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Bánáti Sverák József
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Bánovszky Miklós
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Heintz Henrik
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Jeges Ernő
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Onódi Béla
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Paizs Goebel Jenő
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Rozgonyi László
Gallery
File:Korniss Dezső Csorgó kútjáról további kép, 1967 Budapest.jpg
File:Vajda Lajos - Kapu.jpg
File:Vajda Lajos - 1925 - Utca.jpg
File:Vajda Lajos Composition 1928.jpg
File:Paizs Goebel Jenő Aranykor 1931.jpg
File:Vajda Lajos Szentendre houses 1937.jpg
File:Vajda Night in Szentendre.jpg
File:Vajda Houses in Szentendre with Blue Sky 1935.jpg
References
* https://www.hung-art.hu/vezetes/szente_h.html (In Hungarian)
* Művészeti lexikon. 3. kiad. 4. köt. Budapest : Akadémiai, 1981–1984. {{ISBN, 9630523647 (In Hungarian)
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Hungarian painters
Szentendre