Endre Nemes

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Endre Nemes (photo B L Nemes)

Endre Nemes (November 10, 1909 – September 22, 1985; born with the family name Nágel) was a Hungarian-Slovako-Czecho-Swedish

Lyrical Abstraction.[1] While his early exhibitions included tailors' dummies and écorchés,[2] he was notable in Sweden for his use of enamels in public art
.

Biography

Endre Nemes, Painter in studio, 1938, NG Prague
Endre Nemes, Postcard from Deauville, 1970-1977
Endre Nemes, Encounter with the Baroque, 1968-1979
Endre Nemes: Zodiak Clock (1950), enamel, Västertorp

Born Endre Nágel in

Prague Art Academy, where he met Peter Weiss and Bernard Reder and collaborated with Jakub Bauernfreund.[5] Nemes held his first exhibition with Jakub Bauernfreund at the Dr. Feigl Gallery.[6] As a Jew, he escaped from Czechoslovakia before World War II, was in Helsinki in 1938,[2] traveled through Finland and Norway, and ended up in Sweden where he held his first solo exhibition in 1941 in Stockholm. Just prior to Weiss's March 1941 exhibition at Masshallen, Brunkebergsplate, Nemes had shown his work at the same venue.[5]

He became a Swedish citizen in 1948.

Freiburg, and there was a subsequent retrospective in Lund, Prague, and Salzburg.[2]

In 1965, he was awarded a Swedish State stipend and held a notable exhibition at the Drian Galleries in London. His work can be found in the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum in the US, the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava,[6] and the Ferenc Martyn Museum in Pécs.[8] In 1980, Nemes was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal and in 1984 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg. The same year the three large tapestries he designed for Första Sparbanken in Stockholm were completed at Jindřichův Hradec in Czechoslovakia under the direction of Josef Müller. Two more, for Volvo's headquarters in Gothenburg, followed in 1985.[3] Härryda Municipality in particular has a large collection of works by Nemes. About twenty of his drawings were reported stolen in December 2008 from Ystad Art Museum. However, a month later, the drawings were found in the museum basement. Nemes was a friend of the Estonian poet and publicist Ilmar Laaban.[9]

Nemes died on September 22, 1985, in Stockholm.

References

  1. ^ "Nemes, Endre" Archived 2012-10-25 at the Wayback Machine, Artportal.hu. (in Hungarian). Retrieved 8 May 2012.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8108-5847-3
    . Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Endre Nemes" Archived 2012-09-07 at the Wayback Machine, Galerie Bel'Art, Stockholm. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
  4. ^ a b c "ENDRE NEMES" (in Swedish). Lexikonett Amanda är Sveriges. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-87249-898-3
    . Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  6. ^ a b "Endre Nemes". Louise Kosman. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  7. ISBN 978-0-300-09359-9
    . Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  8. ISBN 978-1-74059-152-2
    . Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  9. ISBN 978-0-8135-3042-0
    . Retrieved 7 May 2012.

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External links
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