Biography
Jenő Gábor attended the Hungarian College of Fine Arts in 1911-1915, his master was Tivadar Zemplényi. After graduating from college, he worked as a drawing teacher. In 1919 he moved back to Pécs, his hometown, where he met the new spirit of avant-garde art. The city then became a center for avant-garde artists scattered from Budapest and the surrounding countries. Jenő Gábor became friends with, among others, Farkas Molnár, Henrik Stefán, Andor Weininger, Alfred Forbát and Marcel Breuer, through whom he came into direct contact with the Bauhaus modernist way of thinking.
His students included Tihamér Gyarmathy and Ferenc Lantos. In the years following the First World War, Pécs was a defining site of the revolutionary and modern artistic spirit, which also defined Jenő Gábor's oeuvre. His later art was influenced by his travels in Paris (1926, 1937) and Berlin (1931), as evidenced by his expressionist, cubist and constructivist-inspired works.
He was a member of the Association of New Artists (UME) and the Society of Artists and Art Friends of Pécs. He exhibited in the National Salon in 1939, in the Ernst Museum in 1959 in the company of Zoltán Klie, Józsa Járitz and István Csillag. Its large collection commemorative exhibition was held in 1971 in Pécs. Many of his pictures are preserved in the Hungarian National Gallery.
