Pre-War Figurative Art
(1922 - 1950)
Signature
Not signed
Exhibited
Catalogue of the 1937/38 exhibition of new acquisitions of the Cathedral City Gallery, Part II. (From the end of the 19th century to the present day.)
1939. február 12-26.
Nemzeti Szalon
Budapest
"Budapest in winter." As part of the action of the National Hungarian Tourist Office, a series of exhibitions "Hungary in the Fine Arts". Hungarian People III.
1940. február 18. - március 3.
Nemzeti Szalon
Budapest
The works of László Bartha from the second half of the 1930s are characterized by: social themes, the depiction of the working man; the use of dark, faded colours (brown, grey, off-white, rust) typical of the suburbs of big cities; a broad, dry, dynamic brushwork; the monumentalization of human figures, their massive mass and strength, which suggest the influence of both expressionism and primitive art in Bartha's art. The oil painting Fisherman, which was owned by the capital for a time, is a typical work of this period.