Július Jakoby (born as Gyula Jakoby,

Košice Košice 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 approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...

, 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

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, 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

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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 was among the first Hungarian exponents of artistic modernism. 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

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and

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and in many Slovak art

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s and private

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. The biggest collection of his work is held in

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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