1928 – 2001 :
Born in 1928, in Hungary. In 1944, deported to Auschwitz. In 1945, he returned to Hungary, where he entered the Budapest School of Fine Arts. 1949 Clandestine departure from Stalinist Hungary. He spent a year in a refugee camp in Austria, near Salzburg, in the French zone. 1950 Settlement in France, at the age of twenty-two, with political refugee status. and he would later settle on rue Visconti with Raymonde Godin, a painter of Quebec origin. In 1954 Pierre Loeb, his first dealer, took him under contract. In 1955, first solo exhibitions simultaneously at the Matthiesen Gallery in London and at the Pierre Gallery in Paris. In 1962-1963, he worked under the influence of Matisse and exhibited from 1964 at the Galerie Pierre Domec until 1967. In 1969, he began a period of transition, which continued until 1975 and coincided with a return to landscape. 1976 Abandonment of oil in favor of more fluid acrylics. “The change in technique corresponds to a rupture of the descriptive links that painting still maintained with reality: the structure becomes more radical, the geometries become informal” (Bernard Zurcher, Paul Kallos, 1988). The plastic and structural importance of the reserves is increasingly felt. In 1977, Premières Strates. Along with the grids, they will remain one of the fundamental modules of the architecture of the paintings. The reserve surfaces take on increasing importance. In 1979, he created the illustrations for Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal (Collection “Lettres françaises”, Imprimerie nationale). In 1984, he exhibited at the Musées de la Cour d’Or, Metz. In 1986, he exhibited with Hantaï, in Neuilly, during the exhibition “Commemoration of the Hungarian Revolt”, and also at the Museum of Modern Art in Budapest for a “Homage to the Motherland” with Vasarely, M Hantaï, Judith Reigl, Jan Ber). In 1989, the Musée d’Evreux, exhibited a retrospective of his work, as did the Musée Denys Puech, in Rodez. Died in 2001.
