Ungarns Highway in die Moderne), 12 September 2012 - 2 December 2012, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, collaboration with Museum of Fine Arts and Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest. Hungary's Highway in the Modern (Die Acht. 2011, The Eight: A Centenary Exhibition, Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs, 10 December 2010 - 27 March 2011.Exhibitions in Hungary and Vienna have marked the centenary of The Eight's first exhibit under that name in 1911. In the 21st century, there has been renewed interest among curators and scholars in the early modernists in Hungary. A major retrospective exhibition of his work was held in Budapest in 1951. During the Soviet period in Hungary following World War II, his work was celebrated for his paintings of peasants and workers. In addition to his painting, Kernstok often lectured and wrote articles about art, which were published in art journals and newspapers, extending his influence. Kernstok's graphic works, together with his copper engravings, are also considered significant. He may also have seen works by the painter Pablo Picasso, who was also exploring Etruscan and classical monumentalism. In the last period of his life, Kernstok became interested in Etruscan painting, and completed The Rape of St. He also painted some naturalist landscapes in this period. The Last Supper (1921), an expressionist picture, was influenced by the artistic currents in Germany which he saw during his time there.
He returned to Budapest, where he remained for the rest of his life. Kernstok's Nude Male Leaning against a Tree (1911) showed the influence of the Fauvists in his use of brilliant color.Īfter the fall in 1919 of the brief Hungarian Soviet Republic, Kernstok emigrated to Berlin, as did many other artists. Bertalan Pór's Family (1909) represented another aspect of the group's work. Kernstok's "monumental painting," Riders at the Waterside (1910) shows the influence of Matisse. They worked with the rationalism of cubists, the decorative use of strong color as seen in the Fauves, and the emotional depth of German Expressionism. They worked with such writers and composers included Endre Ady and Béla Bartók. The Eight embraced the radical intellectual movements in the early 20th century, which was reflected in Budapest in both literature and music. The sculptors Márk Vedres and Vilmos Fémes Beck were also associated with them. After his return, he influenced development of the painters called The Eight (1909–1912), who included Tihanyi, Róbert Berény, Dezső Czigány, Béla Czóbel, Ödön Márffy, Dezső Orbán, and Bertalan Pór. In 1906 Kernstok left Hungary a second time for Paris, where he was impressed by the style of Henri Matisse. Some had studied briefly at Nagybánya, but they were influenced by the French painters, particularly Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. Fellow "Neo" artists included Béla Czóbel, Béla Iványi-Grünwald, Vilmos Perlrott-Csaba, Lajos Tihanyi and Sándor Ziffer. He was considered a leader of the "Neos", a group of artists with radical artistic views, working against the naturalism of the Nagybánya artists' colony. In 1905 he settled in Nyergesújfalu, where he had inherited an estate. Later he painted scenes of peasant life, often in bold and glowing colours related to the Fauvist movement in France.
At the time, Budapest did not have an academy of fine art.Īfter returning to Hungary in 1897, Kernstok painted the Agitátor, a picture with socialist implications. From 1893 to 1896, he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris.
Attracted to art, at age 19 he went to Munich, Germany in 1892, where he studied with Simon Hollósy. Károly Kernstok was born in 1873 in Budapest, where he lived most of his life.
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