Endre Bálint (1914 - 1986, in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e
Biography
He studied poster designing at the School of Applied Arts from 1930 to 1934, then attended the private school of János Vaszary and Vilmos Aba Novák. Vilmos Aba-Novák (15 March 1894-29 September 1941 was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist From 1936 he spent several summers in Szentendre, in the company of his friend Lajos Vajda and artistic peers. Szentendre ( Medieval Latin: Sankt Andrae; Serbian: Сентандреја Sentandreja; German: Sankt Andrä; Hungarian Painter (1908 Zalaegerszeg - 1941 Budakeszi) He was a student of István Csók at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1927-30
In 1945 he founded the artistic group European School and he painted recollections of World War II in its aftermath with powerful gestures. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In 1947 he witnessed as a participant the second surrealistic world expo in Paris. Affected positively by this event, his paintings of the end of the 40s and the beginning of the 50s became populated with mythological creatures: elves, kobolds and anthropomorphic organic creatures. An elf is a creature of Norse mythology. The elves were originally imagined as a race of minor nature and fertility gods, who are often pictured as youthful-seeming Towards the middle of the 1950s he produced drawings that eventually took him to setting his imagination free - with depictions of a horse-headed mouse, wheel-forms, fragments of Swabian and Arabic female figures. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language
After periods of staying temporarily in Paris, he lived there on a permanent basis from 1957 to 1961. In 1958 Édition Labergerie published the Jerusalem Bible with more than a thousand of Bálint's illustrations, and this aided him in developing his typical late artistic style. Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin
From 1959 onward he painted one after the other his most valued paintings, including the Miraculous Fishing, the Dream in the Public Park and I Walked Here Sometime I-II all in 1960 illustrating a form of late surrealism. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members He incorporated memories of his childhood with internal landscapes from his dreams often producing frightening figures and shapes.
By the end of the 60s and the beginning of the 70s the epic nature of this painting had been replaced by the depiction of motifs of symbolic value growing increasingly macabre and grotesque.
Besides his artwork, Balint also had numerous writings and memoirs published in a number of volumes documenting his life in the 1970s and early 1980s. He died in Budapest in 1986. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar)
Paintings Pre 1960
- My Room at the Bindendorfs 1937
- Self-portrait 1942
- Still-life 1946
- House at Szentendre 1948
- Root Dance 1952
- Stone Bird 1952
- Statue in a Cemetery 1959
- Houses at Hastings 1959
- Homesickness 1959
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