TIHANYI 140. Gergely Mariann kurátor tárlatvezetése

The artist's life was marked by serious personal tragedy: at the age of eleven, he lost his hearing as a result of meningitis; his deafness distorted his voice, made it difficult for him to speak, and he learned to read lips. He did not graduate from academic schools; his unique style of painting and drawing was shaped by his individual view of the world, which was influenced by his situation. As a young man, Tihanyi visited Nagybánya, befriended painters and writers, and moved in the intellectual circles of the era. In the winter of 1919, he emigrated abroad and never returned to Hungary. He was an important figure in the Nyolcak artist group, and in 1918 he had a solo exhibition in the exhibition hall of Kassák's MA circle, so he left the country as an already well-known artist. He lived in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and then New York, returning to the French capital in the 1930s.

Tihanyi was connected to the international art styles of the era, and in Berlin and Paris he met prominent representatives of avant-garde art. The most significant aspect of his work is his series of portraits of well-known personalities. In addition to Hungarian celebrities (Lajos Kassák, Lajos Fülep, Endre Ady, Mihály Babits, Józsi Jenő Tersánszky, Dezső Kosztolányi, Pál Pátzay, György Bölöni), he also immortalized prominent members of the international art scene (Ivan Goll, Diego Rivera, Tristan Tzara, Marinetti, Brassaï). Many compared his expressive works to the portrait paintings of Oskar Kokoschka. In the last years of his life, he painted exciting abstract pictures and joined the international artist group Abstraction-Création in 1932.

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Full price ticket: 7,400 HUF

Discounted ticket: 4,200 HUF

Maximum number of participants: 20

Meeting point: ground floor, exhibition entrance

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