Vilmos Aba-Novák

Vilmos Aba- Novák ( born March 15, 1894 in Budapest, † September 29, 1941 ) was a Hungarian painter.

Vilmos Aba- Novák studied from 1912 to 1914 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He worked in the artists' colonies in Szolnok and in Nagybánya (now Baia Mare, Romania). From 1928 to 1930 he was a fellow at the Hungarian Academy in Rome. From 1939 he taught at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

His style contains elements of both Expressionism and the Italian Novecento. With fondness he painted carnival and circus. He created on behalf of the Hungarian state and the Catholic Church many frescoes:

• Roman Catholic Church in Jászszentandrás
• Heldentor in Szeged
• Stephansmausoleum in Székesfehérvár

Aba- Novák received awards at the Paris World Fair in 1937 and at the Venice Biennale 1940. Several of his images can be found in the Hungarian National Gallery.