József Egry Explained

József Egry
Birth Name:Egry, József
Birth Date:1883
Birth Place:Zalaújlak
Death Date:1951
Death Place:Badacsonytomaj

József Egry (1883–1951) was a Hungarian painter, considered a significant representative of Hungarian modernism.

Life

Egry was a student of Janos Korcsek, Károly Ferenczy, and Pál Szinyei Merse He also studied in Munich and Vienna in 1904 and at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1905. He continued his studies in Brussels.[1] Egry's works were Expressionist and Constructivist in nature. He was called as painter of Lake Balaton.[2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00057851?rskey=3lkxP3&result=2 Benezit Dictionary of Artists
  2. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T025065?rskey=3lkxP3&result=1 Grove Art Online
  3. http://www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/e/egry/ Biography of EGRY, József, Fine Arts in Hungary