Lot 216 , István Szonyi, Hungarian (1894-1960), 'Rowing boats on the Danube, Zebegény'

§ István Szonyi (Hungarian, (1894-1960))
'Rowing boats on the Danube, Zebegény',
signed lower right,
watercolour,
20cm x 33cm

Provenance: The György Gordon (1924-2005) collection of Austro-Hungarian Art

£500-1,000
István Szonyi was a Hungarian painter and printmaker. He was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in the autumn of 1913, where his first master was Károly Ferenczy, who in the summer of 1914 took his students – with Szonyi among them - to the Artists’ Colony of Nagybánya. As a soldier on leave, Szonyi also spent the summers of 1917 and 1918 there. Szonyi became one of the most gifted members of the Nagybánya group.

After being discharged in 1918, he returned to the Academy, this time as István Réti’s pupil. In 1921, Szonyi had his first one-man show at Ernst Museum. During trips to Europe (Vienna and Berlin) he became acquainted with the great classical masters.

As a significant member of the “etching generation”, he contributed to the development of Hungarian graphic art at the beginning of the 1920s. Szonyi was appointed to a professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1937, where he taught for more than two decades.

During his last years he suffered from ill health, spending almost all his time in Zebegény. The Szonyi Istvan Memorial Museum in Zebegeny, Bartoky was established in 1967.

Condition:
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Sold for £420