PÁL, István
(1888-1939)



His oeuvre lying hidden in the deep unknown for decades was discovered through research only very recently. The main reason for his life's works remaining unknown was obviously that due to his psychosis István Pál had been hospitalised in a mental clinic that he left uncured in 1930. His career can be traced up to 1939. His oeuvre was scattered, and only few pieces remained.

For a short time he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, under the instructions of Károly Ferenczy in 1906, then he lived and worked in Nagybánya (Baia Mare, Romania), where his painting followed the art of the neoists. His paintings titled 'Stretch of the Park at Nagybánya' and 'Still Life' were displayed at the exhibition of the Nagybánya colony in 1912.

In 1912 he joined the colony of artists at Kecskemét.

During the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 he worked as a teacher in an independent school in Budapest, then he moved to Transylvania, the town of Arad in particular, at the beginning of the twenties. Here he worked for 'Periszkóp', an avantgarde paper edited by György Szántó, and made advertisements and the constructivist graphics accompanying them. He again exhibited his works in Budapest in 1927. His painting activity probably ceased because of his illness.



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