NÉMETH MIKLÓS
Biographical data and appreciations
Born in 1934 in Budapest, is a descendant, on his father’s side, of the famous Varró family of Rome. His ancestors on his mother’sside include Bény Egressy, an acclaimed composer of the Hungarian nation.
Between 1950 and 1954, he attended the Liberal School of Fine Art in Budapest, inspired by the Parisian Academie Julian, under the direction of the painter Ödön Márffy. He then went on to perfect his skills in high-quality self-study work-shop, such as the Fine Arts Studio of the Military Officers’ Club, and the Csepel Works Liberal School of Fine Arts.
Club, and the Csepel Works Liberal School of Fine Arts.
Between 1957 and 1980, he frequented artists’ colonies int he towns of Tokaj, Velence and Telkibánya. In 1980 he affiliated himself to the Art Fund of the Hungarian People’s Republic (currently known as the National Association of Hungarian Artists). In 1992 he became an elected member of the Association of Hungarian Painters.
In 1996 he was awarded the Ilosvai Varga István Prize. Németh is prize-winner of several competitions in fine arts. (Gyöngyös: 1970, Budapest: 1974, Csepel: 1975, Pesterzsébet: 1981). He has created a great deal of graphic design, being a regular contestant of national drawing, water colour and pastel biennials in Salgótarján, Eger, and Esztergom. His works of art are also used in applied graphic design, such as the press and book publishing.
A number of exhibitions, mainly collective, have taken Németh abroad, including the cities of Moscow (1971). Dresden, and Brno (1975). His most important individual exhibitions were organised int he Budapest Art Gallery (1981) and the Budapest Ernst Museum 2000).
His works of art on display in domestic and foreign public collections (Ferenczy Károly Museum, Szentendre; Kiscelli Museum, Budapest; Szechenyi István , Nagycenk; Csallóköz Museum, Dunaszerdahely, Szlovákia). His paintings and graphic works are owned by private collectors in England, Austria, Finland, Israel, Japan, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the Ukraine nand the USA.
Miklós Németh is an important representative of post-Informel trans-avantgarde expressionism in Hungarian painting. Int he mid-1960, he was forerunner of the universal trends of expressionism, some twenty years before its heyday int he 1980s (Heftige Malerei or Neue Wilde). His painting is also rooted int he multifarious pop art, e.g. graffiti and comics. By blending these, Németh has created his own individual style, which gives an insight into the traditions and successive trends of modern painting in Europe. From an urban perspectiva and with a pantheistic concept of life, he depicts the universe, especially the feelings, ordeals and creative endeavours of man as the main repository of Creation.
Budapest, 2017
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Németh Miklós
festő (1934-2012)
1950-54 Márffy Ödön festőiskolájának tanulója. Mesterei Ilosvai Varga István, Gádor Emil és Tóth Menyhért.
1981 A Pesterzsébeti Tavaszi Tárlat díja.
1980-as évek Több díjat nyert helyi és országos amatőr kiállításokon, utoljára a Pest-Buda egyesítése 100. évfordulójára kiírt pályázat I. díját.
1990-98 A Budai Művészcsoport Főtitkára. Részt vesz Tokaj és Telkibánya művésztelepeinek munkájában.
Expresszív, szürreális jegyekkel készített táblaképeinek témái aktok, életképek, csendéletek. Festői látásmódját legjobban a színek tobzódó használata jellemzi. Képein az új szenzibilitás művészeti irányzatának stílusjegyei éppúgy felfedezhetőek, mint a már klasszikusnak számító szintetizmus által kimunkált festői hatások. Témaválasztása egyre inkább szimbolikus jellegűvé vált az évek folyamán. Művészete besorolható az Art Brut művészet sorába, de nevezhetjük punk művésznek, új expresszionistának is.
Egyéni kiállítások:
1957 Tiszti Gáz, Budapest
1958 Munkásotthon, Csepel
1960 Magyar Optikai Művek Művelődési Ház, Budapest
1963 Jókai Klub, Budapest
1981 KisDuna Galéria, Budapest-Soroksár
1981 Műcsanok, Budapest
1983 Fészek Klub, Budapest
1984 Csepel Galéria, Budapest
1986 Kaesz Gyula Faipari Szakközépiskola, Budapest
1990 Gutenberg Galéria, Budapest
1991 Kunitachi,Tokió
1993 Richter Preferencia Galéria, Gyöngyös
1993 Csepel Galéria, Budapest
1995 Csillaghegyi Galéria, Budapest
1996 Ilosvai Varga István Művelődési Központ, Kunhegyes
1997 Dózsa Művelődési Központ, Budapest
1997 Horváth és Lukács Galéria, Nagycenk
1998 Akácos udvar, Budapest
2000 Retrospektív a Kornai-gyűjteményből, Ernst Múzeum, Budapest
2001 Ferenczy Galéria, Budapest
2005 Aranybika Hall, Debrecen
2006 Nagy Imre Művelődési Központ, Csepel
2007 Arten Galéria, Budapest
2006 Maler des Vulkans, St. Pölten
2008 Színvallomás – Németh Miklós festőművész kiállítása, Szombathely
2010 Németh Miklós kiállítása 76. születésnapja alkalmából, Gaál Imre Galéria, Budapest
2012 Németh Miklós (1934-2012) emlékkiállítás, Próféta Galéria, Budapest
Művek Közgyűjteményekben:
CSM – Dunaszerdahely, Ferenczy Múzeum – Szentendre, Fővárosi Képtár – Budapest, Széchenyi Múzeum – Nagycenk
Opinions on Miklós Németh's paintings:
"The spontaneity with which the artist reduces his motifs to the essentials speaks to the beholder through their strikingly strong colours, thus making access to
his art, not just for art connoisseurs, simple, as well exciting."
/Nikolaus Peter Lengersdorff/
„Miklos Nemeth is a principally colorist, painter of lively colors, red, blue and green: his graphical rough-and readiness gains its reason in the celebration of colors. Forms of trees, people and buildings alloy into union in the harmony of his tones.”
/Dr. Miklós Losonci- Art historian/
„He was always interested in the whole surface of the paper. The magic of composition, the rythym and the colors tied down his attention. So were born the significant works of Miklos Nemeth with strength of visions, which - and it's not exaggregation - belong to the front line of Hungarian art.”
/Pál Deim - Kossuth and Munkácsi prize painter artist/
„Inspired by expressionismand surrealism, Nemeth's panels (…) area riot of colour. His pictures reflect the stylistic marks of new sensibility as well as the visual wffects of the now classic trend of synthetism. His themes have taken on an icreasingly sybolic character. His style of painting seems to fall within the scope of Art Brud, but we could rightfully call him a new espressivist.”
/Gábor Ö. Pogány, PhD in Art History, retired Director General of the Hungarian National Gallery/
„(...) Colours constitute the core of Miklos Nemeth's artistry. His paintings do reflect construction, the composition system, and even the contour lin as an organising element of the image, but what really accounts for their uniqueness is Nemeth's colouring techniwue. Bold, loud and poweful even in their occasionaly pale shades, these colours always play a key role in image creation. Nemeth harnesses a wide range of a pinter's skills to create the most vigorous colour efect possible. This is where his strenght resides.”
/Prof. Dr. Lajos Németh, Art Historian, Head of Department, Eötwös Lóránd University of Budapest/
„Miklos Nemeth.(1934 ) works, with their richness in colour, are sweeping away the present Eastern opinion of Europe states a Tokyo newspaper about the 1991 Tokyo-exhibition. Heated with unique colourism, his images of colours would attach him to Matisse, if this volcanic power, fall would not be emerging from inside. Nemeths’ painter’s soul draws the attention on himself with not only his rich colour-experience but also with his style free of boundaries. One looking at Nemeth’s paintings can hardly escape from the view’s suggestiveness. Nemeth’s painting cannot be and it is not even worth comparing to anybodys as what he is representing is Mikos Nemeth’s style itself."/ http://artpainting1.infoandstuff.com/?p=3508
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