Avant-garde
(1905 - 1926)
Girl with a vase (1927)
Information
Signature
Signed bottom right: Hincz Gy. 927.
Bibliography
Example of the etching is in the Hungarian National Gallery's graphic art collection. Ltsz: 1933-2258.
One of this etching-series' piece were exhibited in The past of Hungarian graphic art I., Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, 1979.
Reproduced: The Hungarian Graphic Art Abroad. Germany 1919-1933. Exhibition based on the graphic art collection of the Hungarian National Gallery. Edited by Éva Bajkay. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, 1989. 51., Ferenc Zsákovics. Miskolc Gallery, 2001. 68.
About
Hincz graduated from the college in 1929 as a pupil of János Vaszary, but already in 1928 he presented several of his works at the first exhibition of the Munkácsy Guild and later of the UME (Union of New Artists). As a result of the latter, he was invited to the Sturm Gallery in Berlin, where he showed his work in January 1929.
His early drawings and etchings echo the cubo-expressive formal language of the activists, with their manneristically elongated forms and dramatic contrasts of light and shadow. In 1926, he was one of the first to bring their journals and manifestos home to Hungary. His art was influenced more by Far Eastern ink paintings, and especially by Picasso, who had a lifelong influence. He also incorporated classicist motifs into the post-Cubist order of his still lifes. With their decorative, abstract style, these tus, pastel and tempera paintings convey a particular nostalgic dream world. Kaleidoscopic, swirling, almost cosmic visions appear in his paintings, which, however, could not fully escape the artist's strong desire for decorativeness.
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