Displaying two painters, twenty-one works and one collection, Rare View offers the New York audience an exceptional look at postwar Hungarian art and the holdings of a New York-based private collection, never before shown to the public. Through their competence, passion, and curiosity, Miklós Müller and Jan S. Keithly formed an outstanding collection, linking artists and works of different historical periods and stylistic trends from 1920s Expressionism through the organic abstractions of the European School in the 1940s to contemporary Hungarian art. Rare View presents the works of two leading figures of postwar Hungarian art, Dezsõ Korniss and Pál Deim.

DEZSÕ KORNISS (1908 - 1984)
An outstanding painter and graphic artist of the Hungarian avant-garde, Korniss was educated at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (1925-1929), spent a year in Paris and then traveled to the Netherlands and Belgium. Working with the ornamental motifs of the local architecture and folk culture, they created paintings and drawings in a highly individual style combining the characteristic features of both Constructivist and Surrealist painting. From the 1960s, Korniss became known for his grotesque and humorous collages, his colorful panels and often monumental oil paintings featuring patterns of the Hungarian "cifraszõr" (Hungarian folk embroidery).

PÁL DEIM (1932-)
Painter, sculptor and graphic artist, a native and a resident of Szentendre, Deim studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Following the tradition of such painters as Lajos Vajda, Jenõ Barcsay and Dezsõ Korniss, his early oil and tempera paintings were populated by the fragmented, geometric images of local alleys and houses, as well as the landscape surrounding Szentendre. Following his 1974 mid-career retrospective at the Kunsthalle of Budapest, his work achieved serious critical attention. From the late 1970s, he also worked on bronze sculptures and produced a series of rather freely composed works featuring organic motifs and fluid, graphic signs.

Source: Hungarian Cultural Center, NY

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