Béla Czóbel

Béla Czóbel ( born September 4, 1883 in Budapest, † January 29, 1976 ) was a Hungarian Expressionist and Fauvist artists.

In 1902 he spent the summer with the Impressionists in Nagybanya. Czóbel studied in 1902 and 1903 under Ludwig von Herterich and Julius Diez at the Munich Academy. He then moved to the Paris Académie Julian Jean- Paul Laurens. In Paris he met Pablo Picasso and André Dunoyer Segonzac. In 1905, Czóbel first images that were shown in the hall of the Fauves at the Salon d' Automne. Although he was formally a member of the Fauves, he oriented himself more to Paul Cézanne. Czóbel was a member of the artists' associations and Mienk Nyolcak and remained until 1914 in Paris. The First World War he spent in the Netherlands, after which he worked until 1925 in Berlin. In 1925 he finally moved to Paris, but in constant contact with the Hungarian artists, the summer he spends mostly in Szentendre. In 1933 Czóbel the Szinyei Prize, 1948 Kossuth Prize.

After his Fauvist period Czóbel tried to find a way between the French Fauves, the German Expressionists and the School of Nagybanya. A common feature of most of his images is the strong, oriented on Expressionism color that contrasts with the rather strict lines.

In Szentendre is since 1975 a Czóbel Museum.