SZIGETHY, István
(1891, Erzsébetváros - 1966, Budapest)



Painter and graphic artist. Between 1907 and 1911 he was a student of Károly Ferenczy and Tivadar Zemplényi at the Academy of Fine Arts. Between the two world wars he mainly worked as a newspaper illustrator and a cartoonist. From 1917 his works could be seen at exhibitions. In the 30s he worked both in Budapest and Berlin; he was employed by several German newspapers (Simplicissimus, Jugend, etc.). He published his sketches, etchings, political caricatures in an album entitled 'Grotesque' in 1922. In his painting he combined the formal features of expressionism and surrealism; his grotesque characters are endowed with a symbolic content in the majority of cases. He had numerous exhibitions in Budapest (1923, 1927, 1940, 1947) and abroad (1930: Berlin; 1948: Princeton; 1962: Stuttgart, Erlangen; 1963: Frankfurt; 1965: Hamburg, Munich).


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