“Béla Czóbel: Life and Work of a Painter”
New exhibition series explores the intricate social relationships of Béla Czóbel, the famous avant-garde artist, at the Ferenczy Museum Center. This follows the previous exhibition in 2021 where the museum drew a parallel between Czóbel’s work and that of his second wife, Mária Modok. The new exhibition delves deeper into the professional and personal relationships between the two artists and showcases rare pieces from various collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Hungarian National Gallery, Deák Collection of Szent István Király Museum in Székesfehérvár, Rippl-Rónai Museum in Kaposvár, and the Antal-Lustig Collection.
Curated by art historian Brigitta Muladi, the intersecting artistic paths of the French Nabis and the Fauves, the “Hungarian Wild-Ones,” and dominant personalities from plein-air painting like József Rippl-Rónai, Károly Kernstok, and Baron Ferenc Hatvany, are presented in a unique way through capsule exhibitions. Several artists such as Róbert Berény, Margit Gráber, József Egry, István Ilosvai-Varga, János Kmetty, Csaba Perlrott, Piroska Szántó, Lajos Tihanyi, Géza Vörös, and Sándor Ziffer, who played a significant role in the life of the artist couple, are showcased.
The exhibition seeks to offer insight into the most important personal and professional relationships that Czóbel built during his career as an artist, which blossomed in the early 20th century amid the turbulent changes that characterized European art.
