Biography
Vilmos Perlrott-Csaba was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist, one of the significant representatives of the Hungarian avant-garde. On the advice of József Koszta, he painted every summer in the Nagybánya artist colony from 1903, where his works were corrected by Béla Iványi-Grünwald. His style was greatly influenced by the painting of Károly Ferenczy. In 1906, he won a scholarship to Paris, he spent the winters in Paris and the summers mostly in Nagybánya. He was one of the most prominent representatives of the Hungarian Vadak, he was among the Neos in the Nagybánya artist colony.
In Paris, he enrolled at the Julian Academy, and from 1908 he became a student of Henri Matisse. He also studied the paintings of Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin thoroughly. He was greatly influenced by the German Expressionists, and among the old ones, the Spanish Mannerist painter El Greco. He came into contact with the circle of Gertrude Stein, and from 1907 he exhibited in the Salon of the Independents and the Autumn Salon in Paris, and soon in other major European cities. He had solo exhibitions in Paris in 1908, 1909 and 1912.
He was an extremely prolific artist and very receptive to new stylistic trends. In 1910, with Béla Iványi Grünwald at the head, he marched from Nagybánya to Kecskemét in the company of the other neos, and the Kecskemét artist colony was founded there. He worked in Kecskemét for several summers.
After the First World War, he lived for a few years in Germany and then in Paris. At home, he joined KUT in 1924 and exhibited with them. Between 1924 and 1934 he often painted in Nagybánya during the summer, from the mid-1930s he worked more and more often in Szentendre, in 1949 he was admitted to the Society of Szentendre Painters, and he painted there until his death in 1955. His Art In his art, he combined sensitivity to new styles (Fauvism, Cubism, Pablo Picasso) and respect for traditions (József Koszta, Károly Ferenczy) in accordance with his own age, personality, and the subjects he wanted to portray.
He preserved his decorativeness and expressiveness throughout, as evidenced by the depiction of his last, liberated nature experiences before his death, for example, The Garden of the Artist's Colony. his painting from 1950.