PÓR, Bertalan
(1880, Bábaszék - 1964, Budapest)



He was a pupil of László Gyulay in the School of Industrial Design. He studied in Munich where his master was G. von Hackl. He attended Hollósy's school for a short time, and studied at Jean Paul Laurens at the Julian Academy, Paris in 1901-1903. After his return to Hungary, he became a popular portrait painter. He travelled to Italy in 1907. In 1911 he painted a fresco of 14 m for the frontispiece of the stage in the Opera and designed a mosaic for the trade school in Budapest.

After the fall of the Republic, he emigrated to Slovakia where he lived on painting portraits. He painted landscapes and pictures of animals. He spent the winter of 1934 in Paris. He travelled to the Soviet Union in 1936 where he received orders for two frescoes. He designed them only, but he had no time to carry them out. In 1938 he moved to Paris. In the early 1930s, his drawings were published in Le Monde edited by Barbusse. His symbolic compositions of the shepherd and the bull marked the period which he spent in Paris.

In 1948, he became a teacher at the Art School in Budapest. The significant works of this period were dramatic portraits. His major works: "Self Portrait" (1901), "Family" (1909), "Sermon on the Mount", "Longing for True Love" (1910), and portraits, self-portraits and compositions with a lot of figures.



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