BÁLINT, Rezső
(1885, Budapest - 1945, Budapest)



He started off as a printer and later he studied painting under the guidance of Manó Vesztróczy and Ferenc Szablya-Frischauf. In 1906 he continued his studies in Nagybánya (Baia Mare, Romania) and later in Paris. He had his first exhibition in Budapest in 1909. In 1910 and 1911 he rented a studio jointly with A. Modigliani on Montparnasse in Paris. In 1911 and 1912 he worked in the colony of artists of Kecskemét. In 1919 he published a portfolio entitled 'Shapes, Patches and Lines' presenting ten stone-drawings preceded by an introduction by the Hungarian poet, Dezső Kosztolányi. From 1920 he lived in Izbég in the vicinity of Szentendre and he painted mainly landscapes. The Hungarian National Gallery stores three of his pictures: 'Mother with Her Child', 'Interieur', 'A Hospital Scene'.


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