Jenő Haranghy

1894 - 1951

Biography

Painter, graphic designer. He completed his studies at the Model Drawing School in Budapest and the National Hungarian School of Applied Arts. His masters were Imre Révész, Ferenc Helbing and Imre Simay. In 1912, he trained at the free school in Nagybánya. He made study trips to Italy and France. In 1916, he exhibited for the first time in the Kunsthalle Budapest. He designed posters during the First World War for war loans and other governmental campaigns. All of them are very decorative, colorful drawn compositions. Haranghy prefered to use national symbols and figures in folk costumes, in order to highten patriotic feelings. He was a member of the KÉVE artist group, the Benczúr Society, the Society of Applied Arts. He was active as an art pedagogue at the Department of Decorative Painting and Graphic Arts at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest, where he was the head of the latter until 1945.

Related artworks

The tree of Knowledge (1913)

Jenő Haranghy

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Fairy tale illustration (1911)

Jenő Haranghy

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