Biography
Stefan Henrik graduated as a teacher of drawing at the College of Fine Arts. He was a member of the fine arts section of the modern Pécs Artists' Circle, operating since 1920, as a representative of expressive naturalism. In April 1921, Molnár traveled to Italy with Farkas and Johan Hugo before applying with them to study in Bauhaus. From the autumn of 1921 he began studying at Johannes Itten. Based on their drawings in Italy, they created a lithographic folder entitled "Italia" in 1921-1922 in the Bauhaus graphic workshop together with Farkas Molnár. In 1922 he took courses of Theo van Doesburg and worked in the stone sculpture workshop of the Bauhaus. He was one of the signatories of the KURI group and manifesto organized by Farkas Molnár. He returned home to Hungary in the autumn of 1922 and opened a modern furniture workshop in Törökbálint.
Between 1925 and 1928 he studied again at the Bauhaus. He returned to Pécs after 1929, when he chnaged his name from Stefán to Szelle. He painted landscapes, designed reliefs, frescoes, glass windows, and fulfilled ecclesial orders. He work with Vilmos Aba-Novák on the frescoes in Szeged (1936) and in Pannonhalma (1939), and in 1941 he worked again with Farkas Molnár. After 1945, he and his family fled to Germany, where he recreated portraits, religious paintings, and re-painted his Italian cityscapes.
