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Béla Vidovszky

(1883 – 1973)

Port of Balaton, 1949

Original size: w65cm x h55cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed bottom right: Vidovszky Béla 1949

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Autumn Atmosphere, 2007

Original size: w50cm x h70cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed bottom right: Pálffy Károly

Oil painting: Lady

Unknown Painter

(~1900 – )

Lady

Original size: w35cm x h65cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed: –

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Flowering pear tree, 2007

Original size: w65cm x h100cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed bottom right: Pálffy Károly

Endre Vadász

(1901 – 1944)

Ponte Rialto, 1928

Original size: w35cm x h25cm

Technic: engraving on paper

Signed bottom left: 4. Ponte Rialto, Venezia, bottom right: Vadász Endre 928

Endre Vadász

(1901 – 1944)

Ponte Vecchio, 1929

Original size: w35cm x h25cm

Technic: engraving on paper

Signed bottom left: “Ponte Vecchio”, bottom right: Vadász Endre 929

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Wild flower, 2007

Original size: w70cm x h70cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed bottom right in the circle: Pálffy Károly

Sister Nanica Gorgonia (Gerencsér)

(1908 – 1983)

Lillac flower, 1981

Original size: w60cm x h50cm

Technic: Oil Painting

Signed bottom right: Gorgonia A. Gerencser 1981

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Sunset, 2007

Original size: w25cm x h35cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed bottom right: Pálffy Károly

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Badacsony, 2007

Original size: w25cm x h35cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed bottom right: Pálffy Károly

Sister Nanica Gorgonia (Gerencsér)

(1908 – 1983)

Donkey Cart, 1971

Original size: w40cm x h50cm

Technic: Oil Painting

Signed bottom left: SR. Gorgonia M.D. 1971

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Walk in Füred 1., 2007

Original size: w40cm x h110cm

Technic: Oil painting

Marked on the back of the picture, top centre: “Füredi séta 1.”

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Walk in Füred 2., 2007

Original size: w40cm x h110cm

Technic: Oil painting

Marked on the back of the picture, top right: “2.”

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Walk in Füred 3., 2007

Original size: w40cm x h110cm

Technic: Oil painting

Marked on the back of the picture, top right: “3.”

Signed bottom right: Pálffy Károly

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Walk in Füred 4., 2007

Original size: w40cm x h110cm

Technic: Oil painting

Marked on the back of the picture, top right: “4.”

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

The Essence, 2007

Original size: w50cm x h70cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed bottom right: Pálffy Károly

Sister Nanica Gorgonia (Gerencsér)

(1908 – 1983)

Still life with vines, 1971

Original size: w45cm x h35cm

Technic: Oil Painting

Signed bottom left: SR. Gorgonia M.D. 1971

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Estates in Füred, 2007

Original size: w30cm x h65cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed bottom right: Pálffy Károly

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Night, 2007

Original size: w30cm x h38cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed bottom left: Pálffy Károly

Károly Pálffy - Weeping Willow 2007

Károly Pálffy

(1949 – )

Weeping Willow, 2007

Original size: w65cm x h100cm

Technic: Oil painting

Signed bottom right: Pálffy Károly

Sister Nanica Gorgonia (Gerencsér)

(1908 – 1983)

Daisy, 1976

Original size: w65cm x h45cm

Technic: Oil Painting

Signed bottom right: A. Gerencser 1976

Creators / Artists

Brief background information on the artists/creators behind the works in the gallery, based on Wikipedia and the artist/creator's official website.

Béla Vidovszky

Gyoma, 1883 - Budapest, 1973

BIO

Born in Gyoma (Hungary), his father, the then chief notary of Gyoma, was a good friend of Mihály Munkácsy in Békéscsaba. He completed his secondary education at the Lutheran Rudolf College High School. His talent developed under the tutelage of Lajos Zvarinyi, his teacher at the grammar school, who was also the first teacher of drawing at the grammar school. He painted his first oil painting of his schoolmate Géza Gyóni in 1902. In the same year he enrolled at the Mintarajziskola in Budapest, where his teachers were Imre Révész and Aladár Edvi Illés. In 1906 he obtained a diploma as a drawing teacher, but continued his studies as a state scholarship student with Károly Ferenczy.
His works are in the tradition of the Barbizon and Nagybánya artists, above all landscapes and interiors.

Exhibitions, Awards

In 1913 he was awarded the Wahrmann Prize of the National Council of Fine Arts for his painting After Dinner. In 1920 he was one of the founding members of the Szinyei Society, and in 1924 he moved to Budapest. His works were exhibited in 1933 at the Fränkel Salon, in 1938 at the Auróra Circle in Békéscsaba and in 1961 at the Csók Gallery. He became a well-known and popular painter of Hungarian art between the two world wars. He painted nearly two thousand pictures, twenty of which are in the Hungarian National Gallery and five in the Hungarian Parliament.

In the first half of the 20th century, Béla Vidovszky was a renowned and justly popular painter. Twenty of his paintings are kept in the Hungarian National Gallery, and five of his paintings decorate the Parliament House. Vidovszky’s interior was bought by the King of Hungary in 1915 and by the King of Italy in 1920. His finest interior decorations were made in one of the Eszterházy castles, his paintings were bought by the prince, and in 1945 he exported them, together with the entire interior, to another country. The eminent art historian Tibor Gerevich said that “Vidovszky was the most outstanding interior painter of his time in Europe”.

Currently, his works can be found in many renowned and famous galleries, and his paintings are currently being auctioned off: e.g. Kieselbach https://www.kieselbach.hu/muvesz/vidovszky-bela_1138

Endre Vadász

Szeged, 1901 - Gödöllö, 1944

BIO

Born in Szeged, his father was Simon Sándor Vadász (Weisz) Simon Sándor, a crop merchant, his mother Ilona Kohn, he was already drawing a cartoon album at the age of seventeen. In 1918-19, he studied with Ödön Heller at the Szeged School of Fine Arts. Later he studied with Adolf Fényes and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Oszkár Glatz. His other masters were István Zádor and Viktor Olgyai.

As the Second World War approached, his anxiety and fear of death became evident in his works. On 3 June 1944, when he learned that his wife was to be sent to the Budapest ghetto the next day, he committed suicide in the Gödöllő labour camp, as did his wife.

Exhibitions, Awards

He was a frequent participant in the exhibitions of the Munkácsy Guild, the Szinyei Merse Pál Society, the Ernst Museum, but also took part in the Venice Biennale, the European and American group exhibitions of the Hungarian Society of Etching Artists from Oslo to Chicago, London to Cleveland. His oil and tempera paintings, watercolours, fine line etchings, and etchings on stains became increasingly popular. He also created a number of ex libris in 1929, winning first prize at the World Exhibition in Barcelona.

He participated in many exhibitions and won many prizes. In 1937, the Tamás Gallery organized a collective exhibition of his works. His copperplate engravings, woodcuts and linocut prints are mainly known, but he also produced tempera and oil paintings. Several of his solo albums have been published. At the beginning of 1940, he participated with his paintings in the exhibition of the ‘For Hungarian Art’ movement opened by Governor Miklós Horthy at the Old Kunsthalle on Andrássy Road.

In 1971, the Móra Ferenc Museum in Szeged organised an exhibition in honour of his work, and in 1982 his memorial exhibition was held at the Hungarian National Gallery. Many of his paintings are in the Déri Museum in Debrecen.

Currently, his works can be found in many renowned and famous galleries, and his paintings are currently being auctioned off: e.g. VirágJuditGaléria 

Endre Szász

Csíkszereda, 1926 - Mosdós, 2003

BIO

Born in Csíkszereda, his father was Béla Szász, a doctor, his mother Erzsébet Susenka. He graduated from high school in Târgu Mures, then continued his studies at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts in 1946. He graduated in 1949 in the class of István Szőnyi.
In the 1950s he spent a year in prison on trumped-up charges. After his release he made book illustrations, illustrating 600 books between 1951 and 1960.
In 1964, his illustrations for Omar Khayyam’s Rubáiyát were selected as one of the thirty most beautiful books in the world in an international competition organised by the British Museum. In 1968, he was the visual designer for the major Hungarian historical film The Stars of Eger.
With a painting style that drew on the techniques of the classical masters and combined them with surrealist elements, he became a widely celebrated painter. From 1970, as a Hungarian citizen, he lived in Toronto and then in the USA. Returning home in 1980, he applied his talent to a new genre, porcelain, an untapped field for him, which brought him a change of perception. At the porcelain manufactory in Hollohaus, he recorded several important porcelain motifs. His imaginative, surrealistic figures in opalescent grey were combined with the line play of oriental ornamentation.

Exhibitions, Awards

In addition to his home country, he has had exhibitions almost all over the world, from Europe (Berlin, Vienna, Paris) to North and South America (Toronto, New York, Mexico City), the Middle East and Japan. In 1963 he participated in the Venice Biennale.

1965 – Munkácsy Mihály Prize
1992 – Honorary Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit; Leipzig Gold Medal
2003 – Hungarian Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, civilian category (he was unable to receive it due to his death two days earlier).

Currently, his works can be found in many renowned and famous galleries e.g. Kieselbach https://www.kieselbach.hu/muvesz/szasz-endre_1045

Károly Pálffy

Károly Pálffy fotó

Tapolca, 1949 -

BIO

Drawing teacher, painter, graphic artist, born in 1949 in Tapolca. After the dominant environment of Tapolca and the Káli basin, he finished high school in Veszprém, then graduated in drawing and biology in Pécs. Since 1974 he lives and works in Balatonfüred. 

Sister Nanica Gorgonia (Gerencsér)

Pötréte, 1908 - USA, 1983

BIO

Born in Zala County, Hungary. She then moved to Canada with her parents and siblings. As a nun she came to America and lived here for the rest of her life. During her life she gave her paintings away for charity, and after her death her paintings became the property of her family and the Catholic Church.

She led a secluded life because of her vocation, so little is known about her life and work.

If anyone knows any details of her life and work, please let the NemoLand team know so that we can complete a portrait of the artist, honouring and acknowledging her work.

Exhibitions, Awards