NAGY, Imre
(1893, Zsögöd - 1976, Csíkszereda)



College lecturer. He obtained his degree from the Teacher Training College of Csíkszereda (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania). After the First World War he dealt with sculpture and came to Budapest. In 1918 he enrolled at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts and studied the art of drawing and painting. His master was Viktor Olgyay. Between 1920 and 1922 he was a scholar of the Kecskemét colony of artists; in 1922 his pictures were first publicly displayed at the colony's exhibition. In 1924 he moved to Zsögöd (Jigodin), Transylvania for good. He created his works inspired by an attraction to the Csík region and the Szeklers.

In the 1920s he had several individual exhibitions chiefly in Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca, Romania) and in Brassó (Brasov, Romania). In 1928 he went on study trips to Italy, Austria and Germany. He was a founding member of the Barabás Miklós Guild and he was present at an exhibition thereof in 1930. In 1929 and 1933 he had exhibitions in Salonul Oficial in Bucharest. In 1936 and 1937 he had a comprehensive exhibition of his works organised in Budapest. A year later a one-man exhibition was opened in London. In 1942, 1958, 1963 and 1973 he had collective exhibitions in Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca, Romania), Marosvásárhely (Tirgu Mures, Romania) and Bucharest. In 1949 he was appointed to be a teacher of watercolour painting at the Kolozsvár Art Academy. In 1947 a retrospective exhibition of his was opened in the Mikó Castle of Csíkszereda. In 1976 an exhibition of his collected works was organised in the Hungarian National Gallery. Several museums all over Transylvania treasure his works.



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