Lajos Vajda
| Lajos Vajda | |
|---|---|
 Lajos Vajda in Szentendre (1939) | |
| Born |
6 August 1908 Zalaegerszeg |
| Died |
7 September 1941 Budakeszi |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Movement | Avant-garde |
Lajos Vajda (Hungarian: Vajda Lajos, 1908, Zalaegerszeg - 1941, Budakeszi) was a Hungarian Painter.
He was a student of István Csók at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1927-30. He studied together with Dezsõ Korniss at Fernand Léger in Paris in 1930-34 where he was introduced to cubism and surrealism.
He lived and worked in Szentendre, Hungary. Following the method of composers Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály he collected folk art motifs in Szentendre and Szigetmonostor for his artworks.
He combined religious (Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic and Jewish) symbols, architectural and folk art motifs, abstract, figurative, and surrealistic elements on his pictures to create complex visionary images. His last abstract surreal drawings foreshadow the horrors of World War II. He died of tuberculosis in 1941.
He is considered to be the most distinctive of the Hungarian avant-garde movement. His art influenced generations of Hungarian artists among them the members of the European School Art Group (established in 1945) and the Vajda Lajos Studio (established in 1972).
His works can be found in museums and private collections, among them in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest and in the Vajda Lajos Museum in Szentendre, Hungary.
Famous works
Self-portrait in a Cap, 1924
Fics, 1928
Leopard and lilies, 1930–33
Tolstoy and Gandhi, 1930–33
Still-life on a Table of Horseshoe Form, 1934
Churches, trees, dotted forms, 1934
Tower, 1935
Two sisters, 1936
Portrait with a Skull, 1936
Self-portrait with Hold-up Icon, 1936
Self portrait with lilies 1936
Self-portrait with Icon, 1936
Houses with cyrillic letters, 1936
Friends, 1937
Houses at Szentendre with Crucifix, 1937
Collage with the Painter's Figure, 1937
Native boat, 1938
Huge Landscape Mask, 1938
Nature, 1938
Silver gnome, 1940
Rider, 1940
War, 1940
Owl with nest, 1940
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