Biography
Dezső Orbán was a Hungarian avant-garde painter and graphic artist.
Son of Sergeant Adolf Oesterreicher and Júlia Schärfer. He first started as a liberal arts student, then studied fine arts in Paris, where he was greatly influenced by the art of Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse. In the 1900s and 1910s, he painted post-impressionist still lifes, nudes, and landscapes, later his style became more colorful and decorative, and during his emigration to Australia he moved towards abstract expressionism.
He was an exhibiting artist in Vienna, Berlin and Cologne. At home, he joined the Eight and exhibited with them. It was presented in the Könyves Kálmán Salon in Budapest in 1917, from 1918 several times in the Ernst Museum, and in 1923 in the Helikon. He founded the Atelier design and workshop school in Budapest, where he taught applied and advertising graphics.
In 1939, due to racial persecution in Hungary, he emigrated to Australia with his family, where he worked as a painter and art teacher.