Endre Nemes

Endre Nemes ( born November 10, 1909 in Pécsvárad, Hungary, † September 22, 1985 in Stockholm, Sweden), was a Hungarian- Swedish painter and graphic artist. He was one of the most important representatives of modern painting and printmaking after the Second World War.

Life

Early years

Endre Nemes studied at the Art Academy in Prague. The first exhibition of his art found, together with Jacob Born Friend in the gallery Dr. Feigl in Prague in 1936 instead.

In 1938, Nemes emigrated to Helsinki, 1940, he finally moved to Sweden. The way in his final home resulted in a roundabout way from Budapest to Vienna, Prague, Paris, Helsinki, Oslo to Stockholm. His life was marked by his own rootlessness and loneliness.

Work

Endre Nemes in 1941 his first exhibition in Stockholm. 1948 Nemes received Swedish citizenship. 1959 followed by solo exhibitions in Zurich and Freiburg as well as participation in documenta 2 in Kassel in the painting department. Retrospectives of his art took place in Lund, Gothenburg and in the National Gallery in Prague in the Art Gallery.

In 1965 he was awarded a scholarship by the Swedish State. The most important exhibition of his work took place in 1965 in the Drian Galleries in London. Endre Nemes work at the Brooklyn Museum, USA, in the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava and many other museums are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, at the Philadelphia Art Museum in the United States, contain the world.

His art was influenced by Surrealism in the thirties. In his paintings, the people appear to be part of a mechanism, like a machine. Later he comes to abstract painting. His entire work is distinguished by a special melancholy.