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LÁSZLÓ BENCZE* (Stuhlweißenburg 1907 - 1992 Budapest)

Village in Transylvania
oil/canvas 55,5 x 65 cm
signed Bencze M.

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 400
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 200

László Bencze was a Hungarian artist. He worked as a painter, graphic artist and teacher. 1925 to 1928: he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Budapest, from 1928 to 1930 with Ágost Benkhard at the University of Fine Arts, Budapest. He abandoned his studies in 1930 and settled in Dudar, where he worked until 1934. He lived in Szadan, Dudar, Budapest until 1939 and in Fülek between 1939 and 1945. Here he was a wooden toy designer and factory manager at the Iparművek Rt factory. He lived and worked in Budapest from 1945 and also in Csopak from 1967. From 1948 to 1957 Bencze taught at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. His reviews and theoretical writings have also been published in various daily newspapers and magazines. His monograph “Frans Hals” was published in 1963. He undertook study trips to several European countries, for example to Italy and the Netherlands. In 1933 Bencze debuted in a group exhibition at the Ernst Museum, Budapest. Further exhibition participation in the Fényes Adolf Hall of the museum followed in 1949, 1952 and 1953, In 1960 and 1964, Bencze's monumental works were shown in the Dürer Hall of the Ernst Museum. From 1948 to 1957 Bencze taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. During these years he was particularly interested in portraits. In 1952 he was honored with the Kossuth Prize, Hungary's highest state award for art and culture, for his pen drawing series “Think of Korea”. Over the course of his career, his personal style went through developments that were influenced by post-impressionism, new objectivity and geometric image construction. Bencze always remained attached to figuration. He painted landscapes and cityscapes, but his main subject was people who struggled with loneliness and wanted to break out of it. The bending female figures, thoughtful figures and self-portraits are characteristic. His works, created in the 1930s and 1940s, are characterized by social sensitivity and the depiction of people on the fringes of society. The coloring of his pictures and the expressive painting style show, among other things, the influence of Van Gogh. His drawings from these years were created under the influence of the war and work in the factory and usually focus on the lives of the poor rural and urban population. The pictures created in the second half of the 1940s are characterized by dark colors and a monumental effect and are similar to the earlier works in their painting style. The figures depicted are block-like and made up of heavy shapes. In the early 1950s, Bencze created loosely structured, idyllic genre paintings in the spirit of socialist realism. At the beginning of the 1960s he returned to the style of the paintings he created at the end of the 1940s. From the 1970s onwards he was particularly interested in the relationship between space and matter. His works from this phase are characterized by a mosaic-like painting style that emphasizes contours and structural elements. Awards, honUors 1938: Szinyei Society Spring Salon Prize 1952: Kossuth Prize 1954: State Prize of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1955: Gold Medal of Merit. Further artists and styles: Béni Ferenczy, Endre Vadász, Tibor Hetényi, Tibor Gergely, Brigitta Videky, Maria Lazar, Zsigmond Cselényi Walleshausen, Geza Boross, Ibolya Csengery, Gitta Gyenes, Ferenc Erdély, Ilona Bereczky, Olga Székely-Kovács, Maria Barta, Alice Endresz, Jenö Szabados, Gyula Derkovits, Jozsef Rippl-Ronay, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Victor Vasarely und Vilmos Aba-Novak

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