BOKROS BIRMAN, Dezső
(1889, Újpest - 1965, Budapest)



Sculptor, painter. Bokros Birman, a building sculptor, began his studies at the School of Applied Arts. His teachers included Lajos Mátrai, Imre Simay and Géza Maróti. After three years, he opened his workshop as a decorative sculptor, but the undertaking proved to be a complete failure. He travelled to Paris to study modern French sculpture and painting.

His "Job" illustrations dated from 1920 when he was in Berlin. He visited Paris several times and worked in Bratislava from 1926 to 1932 producing mostly portraits and statuettes. The development of his art was influenced by Egyptian sculpture, the Greek ideal of beauty, renaissance and modern sculpture of the early 20th c. With his art, he wished to express his opposition to the offical art school. He was one of the most influential Hungarian representatives of expressionism. His works were exhibited in Paris in 1948, and in the Art Gallery, Budapest, in 1957. His major works include "Self-Portrait with Hat" (1924), "Don Quixote" (1929), "Miner Looking into the Sun" (1942), "Disabled Soldier" (1944), "The Choir of Peoples in the Danube Valley" (1949), and the "Statue of Mednyánszky" which remained to a be a plan only (1956).



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