Biography
Endre Faragó was a Hungarian painter. He studied art in Budapest, after high school he began his painting studies at the Artúr Podolini-Volkmann free school, then continued his education in Paris, at the Julian Academy and the Colarossi. He was in close contact with Gyula Macskássy and Félix Kassowitz. He participated in group exhibitions from the 1920s. In 1927 he presented his works in Szervita Square in Pest. At the end of the 1920s he appeared with decorative, colorful landscapes drawing from impressionism. He soon became a regular exhibitor at the National Salon, the Munkácsy Guild and the UME exhibitions, for example he participated in the UME exhibition at the National Salon in 1931, and critics positively evaluated his decorative, geometric compositions painted with bright poster colors that he had developed by then. In the first half of the 1930s, Faragó exhibited his graphic works at exhibitions of the Buda Fine Arts Society. Due to his Jewish origin, the first anti-Jewish law interrupted his artistic career, but he was still able to work as an employed graphic artist until his deportation in 1942, after which he never returned.