FERENCZY, Noémi
(1890, Szentendre - 1957, Budapest)



Painter. Noémi, daughter of Károly Ferenczy, a painter, and sister of Béni and Valér Ferenczy, established tapestry in Hungary. She learnt to draw from her father, then picked up the technique of tapestry in the Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, in 1913. Her first tapestries were "Creation" (1913) and "Escape to Egypt" (1917). From 1920 onwards, her composition and forms became simpler, yet larger ("Bluebells", 1921, and "Sisters", 1921). The process of the message becoming more and more universal and uniting monumentality and harmony lasted until her death ("Gardening Women", 1923, "Woman Carrying Wood", 1925), "Peasant with Scythe", 1926, "Worker Woman with Red Jug", 1930, "Weaver", 1933, "Bricklayer", "House Builder", "Baker", 1933, etc.).

The lyric colours of her tapestries related her art to the post-Nagybánya school. She became a teacher of the School of Design in 1945. It was characteristic of her art that she did all phases of the tapestry production.



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