Július Jakoby (born as Gyula Jakoby,

Košice Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коszyce) is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of app ...

, Kingdom of Hungary, 28 March 1903 – Košice, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, 15 April 1985) was a Slovak painter of Hungarian ancestry. Jakoby was a prominent figure of Slovakia's modernist art. His image is that of a loner, living on the fringe of society, struggling for survival at the start of his career. His work is deeply tied to the small town atmosphere of Košice and its people, whose macrocosm can be seen in most of his works. In formal terms his work reflects secessionist expressionism and symbolism of Konštantín Kövári-Kačmárik and the Hungarian symbolism of Károly Férenczy and

József Rippl-Rónai József Rippl-Rónai (23 May 1861 – 25 November 1927) was a Hungarian painter. He first introduced modern artistic movements in the Hungarian art. Biography He was born in Kaposvár. After his studies at the High School there, he went to ...

. The works of Július Jakoby are exhibited in Slovak national gallery, National Gallery in Prague and Hungarian National Gallery and in many Slovak art museums and private

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. The biggest collection of his work is held in

East Slovak Gallery The East Slovak Gallery, established in 1951, was the first regional gallery in Slovakia. The mission of the Gallery is the protection and presentation of the collection and documentation of the art scene and artistic life in the region of Easte ...

in Košice. His achievements are commemorated by a statue in the centre of his hometown of Košice, where he spent most of his life. Jakoby Gyula szobor Kassa

References

External links

Hundred Years of Artistic Solitude. Thoughts on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Gyula Jakoby’s Birth (in Hungarian)

Artist profile on Artportal

Works held in Slovak art collections
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jakoby, Julius Artists from Košice 1903 births 1985 deaths 20th-century Hungarian painters Hungarian male painters Czechoslovak painters 20th-century Hungarian male artists