Nudes in the Painting of 1920s

Besides avant-garde, neo-classicist trends became stronger during the early 1920s. On the pictures of a young generation after World War I monumental nudes in peace are present.

Erzsébet Korb
Revelation, 1920-25
Károly Patkó
Bathing Women, 1926
István Szőnyi
On the Bank, 1928
Jenő Medveczky
Composition with Three Figures, 1929

Human figures carried a spiritual message in pictures of Erzsébet Korb, figures of idyllic Arcadia appeared in those of Károly Patkó while figures of István Szőnyi were flesh and blood people.

At the end of the decade the nudes of Jenő Medveczky represent strict archaism.


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