Pre-War Figurative Art

(1922 - 1950)

About

Pre-War Figurative Art

 

The term has been particularly used since the arrival of abstract art to refer to artists that retain aspects of the real world as their subject matter, though in a general sense figurative also applies retrospectively to all art before abstract art. Modern figurative art can be seen as distinct from modern realism in that figurative art uses modern idioms, while modern realists work in styles predating post-impressionism (more or less). In fact, modern figurative art is more or less identical with the general current of expressionism that can be traced through the twentieth century and on. Picasso after about 1920 is the great exemplar of modern figurative painting, and Alberto Giacometti from about 1940 is the great figurative sculptor. After the Second World War figuration can be tracked through the work of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and the other artists of the School of London, and through pop art, neo-expressionism, and new spirit painting.

Artworks in this theme

Christ (1923)

Imre Ladányi

4,000 USD

Sinking of Titanic (1912)

Thomas Bodnár

25,000 USD

Bathing woman (1927)

István Cserepes

8,000 USD

Street in Castelnuovo (1918)

Jenő György Remsey

40,000 USD

Strike (1933)

Imre Ladányi

2,000 USD

Neighbors (1929)

Lenke Szemere

30,000 USD

Still life with blue vase (1931)

Mária Lehel

8,000 USD

Horse bathing (1940)

Ferenc Helbing

16,000 USD

Steamboats on the Chesapeake Bay (1929)

Artúr Podolini-Volkmann

5,000 USD

Francis II Rákoczi (1910)

Gyula Tichy

30,000 USD

African girl (1940-es évek első fele)

Jenő Szantrucsek

20,000 USD

Self-portrait (1935)

Anna Oelmacher

10,000 USD

Washing Woman (Sicily) (1937)

Andor Sugár

40,000 USD

Cavalryman (1831)

Unknown artist

8,000 USD

Salute to Miklós Horthy (1940-es évek első fele)

Elek Győri

60,000 USD

Hospitality (1933)

Zoltán Klie

6,000 USD

Siblings (1930 körül)

Nelly Timkó

60,000 USD

Woman with white hat (1910-es évek dereka)

Mariska Undi

30,000 USD

Csopak - Lake Balaton (1920-as évek)

Árpád Basch

5,000 USD

Football player (Vintage Photomontage) (1915)

István Kerny

6,000 USD

Nude (dancer Flóra Korb), (1927)

János Marosi Tímár

12,500 USD

Still life (1945)

Imre Ladányi

5,000 USD

Portrait of writer Lydia Kovács (1913)

Aladár Kacziány

40,000 USD

In a bar (1934)

Ernő Adler Kaba

6,000 USD

At the window (1941)

Andor Endre Fenyő

5,000 USD

Parisian street (1912)

Viktor Erdei

15,000 USD

Factory on the banks of the Danube (1929-1930 )

István Cserepes

35,000 USD

In the room (1906)

Ferenc Lehel

9,000 USD

Paula (1931-1932)

Anna Bartoniek

30,000 USD

Woman with a daisy (Spring) (1915)

János Tábor

16,000 USD

Butcher Shop (1935 körül)

Erzsébet Lóránt

70,000 USD

Zátony (Book cover design) (1930 előtt)

Álmos Jaschik

12,000 USD

Lady in red hat (1930-as évek első fele)

Szilárd Detre

3,000 USD

The Twelve - Illustration for Aleksandr Blok: The Twelve (1923)

Sándor Bortnyik

12,000 USD

Indian landscape (1932)

Erzsébet Sass Brunner

30,000 USD

Forest House (1922)

Galambos Margit

4,000 USD

Bauhaus glass window design (1925)

Hugó Johan

12,000 USD

Budapest (1934)

Álmos Jaschik

6,000 USD

French family (1920)

Szilárd Detre

4,000 USD

Two Women (1910)

Rezső Mihály

12,500 USD

Portrait of a Young Man (1880)

Imre Révész

8,000 USD

Coffee-grinder girl (1928)

Rózsa Dabis

2,500 USD

Suburb (1922)

Lajos Csabai Ékes

2,000 USD

Margaret Bridge (1922)

Lajos Csabai Ékes

4,000 USD

Montparnasse (1930)

Jenő Szantrucsek

6,000 USD

Grape Harvest (1923)

Sándor Muhits

8,000 USD

Reading (1925)

Tibor Pólya

5,000 USD

Pope John XXIII in Budapest (1930)

Aladár Richter ifj.

6,000 USD

After Rain (1930)

Elza Honti Pariss

6,000 USD

Fisherman (1939 körül)

László Bartha

4,000 USD

Landscape (1928)

Irma Berky

6,000 USD

River Bank with Trees (1930)

János Nyergesi

2,000 USD

Gathering (1910)

Sándor Muhits

6,000 USD

Illustration (1927)

Kata Benedek

4,000 USD

Protestors (1920-as évek vége)

Andor Sugár

2,000 USD

Boy with small car (1935 körül)

Erzsébet Lóránt

40,000 USD

Still life with fruits (1938 körül)

Judit Beck

10,000 USD

Girls feeding birds (1930)

Judit Beck

18,000 USD

On the street (1930)

Judit Beck

10,000 USD

King David (1923)

József Bató

40,000 USD

Male Portrait (1931)

Zoltán Borbereki Kovács

4,000 USD

Factory Yard (1930)

István Dési Huber

6,000 USD

Female Portrait (1942)

Ida Gömöri Raidl

10,000 USD

Deborah (1914 körül)

Lipót Gedő

20,000 USD

Speakeress (1935 előtt)

Szilárd Detre

4,000 USD

Female Nude (1920)

Ervin Bossányi

15,000 USD

Faggot Carrier (1916)

Jenő György Remsey

30,000 USD

Female portrait (1928)

Milly Czukor

8,000 USD

At the market (1930)

Erzsébet Csöre

30,000 USD

Self-portrait (1929)

Ili Szirmay

6,500 USD

Totem dance (1931)

Mária Barta

25,000 USD

Lovers in the Garden (1930)

Gyula Tálos

4,000 USD

Interlocutors at the Table (1941)

János Schnitzler

2,000 USD

Magda (1940-es évek második fele)

Gyula Marosán

12,000 USD

Valley with Houses (1929)

Elza Honti Pariss

2,000 USD

Standing Female Nude (1930)

Imre Kupferstein

2,000 USD

Allegorical drawing (1905 körül)

Sándor Nagy

12,500 USD

Seated figure (1940)

Endre Barzó

2,000 USD

Gypsy Girl (1931)

Margit Csabai Rott

15,000 USD

Camp Scene (1945)

Ella Hegedűs

15,000 USD

Fruit Picker Girl (1923)

Ada E. Karinthy

3,000 USD

Horseman (1930-as évek dereka)

István Pekáry

8,000 USD

Small town detail with figures (1935 )

Kató Petrich

20,000 USD

Country home interior (1930)

Kató Petrich

20,000 USD

Nude Lying on Sofa (1935)

Klára Schossberger

12,000 USD

Fruit Basket (1935)

Klára Schossberger

10,000 USD

Woman with birds (1930)

Attila Sassy

10,000 USD

Modiano advertising (1920)

Sándor Nagy

4,000 USD

Folklore study (1921)

Mariska Undi

3,000 USD

Still-life with a flask (1933)

Andor Kántor

12,000 USD

Cemetery in Nagybecskerek (1890)

László Kézdi Kovács

4,000 USD

Sunbathing Women (1930 körül)

Gitta Gyenes

4,000 USD

Medieval Hunting Scene (1920)

Sándor Muhits

3,000 USD

View of Tihany (1930)

Álmos Jaschik

4,000 USD

Folk Tales (1940-es évek)

Álmos Jaschik

6,000 USD

Vision (1935)

Álmos Jaschik

10,000 USD

Ex Libris (1920)

Aladár Kacziány

4,000 USD

Female Nude (1928)

Győző Viktor Ráfael

8,000 USD

Danse Macabre (1930)

Margit Werner

2,000 USD

Antal and Hosszu Fashion House (1920)

József Gróf

20,000 USD

Facade plan of the headquarters of the National Hungarian Society of Applied Arts (OMIT) (1910)

Gyula Tálos

6,000 USD

Female Nude in Interior (1908)

Kálmán Tichy

8,000 USD

Fruit Seller Girl (1931)

Klára Schossberger

10,000 USD

Train from the Window (1930)

István Cserepes

8,000 USD

Nude with Jug (1935)

Gitta Gyenes

7,000 USD

Vision (1937)

Zoltán Klie

6,000 USD

Christ on the Cross (1930 körül)

Lili Árkayné Sztehlo

8,000 USD

Bold Antiqua (1930)

György Hegyi

4,000 USD

Landscape of Balaton (1932)

István Éless

3,000 USD

Factory (1930)

Sándor A. Tóth

8,000 USD

Nude (1935)

Zoltán Wessel

5,000 USD

Young man (Around 1910)

Ernő Schubert

2,000 USD

St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest (1940s)

Unknown artist

3,000 USD

African woman (1933)

András Csikós Tóth

5,000 USD

Christmas (1939)

Klára Kliené Róna

6,000 USD

The Klie family at home (1940)

Klára Kliené Róna

5,000 USD

The Bridge of Damnation (1926 körül)

Ferenc Zajti

15,000 USD

Talagabodas volcano in Garoet-Java (1933)

Ujfalusy

8,000 USD

Stage design (1927)

Ernest Klausz

6,000 USD

Taj Mahal (c. 1928-1929)

Ferenc Zajti

12,500 USD

Grief (1930-1931)

János Héjjas

100,000 USD

Bucolic scene (1910s)

Mihály Biró

20,000 USD

Seaside city (Around 1936)

Dezső Fáy

8,000 USD

Károly Boulevard (1909)

Artúr Lakatos

4,000 USD

Female painter (around 1932)

Dénes Faddi Förstner

12,500 USD

Nude with a red bow in her hair (1940 körül)

Ida Gömöri Raidl

22,000 USD

Chicago World's Fair 1933 (1933)

Ernő Gyimesi Kásás

30,000 USD

Conversation (1868)

Albert Fáy

8,000 USD

Carnival skating (Around 1932)

Olga Hadzsy

3,000 USD

Nude with a jug (Around 1930)

Ilona Hámor

16,000 USD

Aida (Around 1930)

Vazul Adamovics Arányi

4,000 USD

Cover designs for Károly Anzelm Berczeli's books (1927-1928)

Békeffi György

5,000 USD

Self-portrait (1927)

István Szigethy

12,500 USD

Lady in polka dot robe (1932)

Edit Basch

35,000 USD

Waterfront (1926)

László Kemény

8,000 USD

Room (Around 1930)

Póth István József

3,000 USD

Astrakhan (1916)

Géza Pap

6,000 USD

Boy (Around 1920)

Iván Komoróczy

3,000 USD

Still life with eastern sculptures (around 1930)

Mária Turán Hacker

6,000 USD

Sleeping girl (Around 1925)

Ervin Körmendi Frim

2,000 USD

Birch Forest (Around 1925)

Attila Sassy

10,000 USD

Portrait of King Fuad I for "Al-Muassat" hospital mural, Alexandria, Egypt (1933)

Árpád Bardócz

7,000 USD

Lausanne landscape (Around 1920-1921)

György János Simon

5,000 USD

SMS Emden in naval battle (Around 1914)

Dezső Bér

3,000 USD

The park of Esterházy Castle in Fertőd (Around 1912)

Gitta Gyenes

30,000 USD

Peasant (1925)

Mela Hanna

6,000 USD

Family (1940-es évek eleje)

Ella Hegedűs

8,000 USD

Spring forest (Around 1916)

Hugó Johan

2,000 USD

Self-portrait (1929)

László Cseney Vuchetich

6,000 USD

Goose shepherd boy (1912)

Mária Lehel

22,000 USD

The bear, the hunter and the devil (Around 1910)

Viola

2,500 USD

The Prisoners of the Land (1926)

Pál Miháltz

22,000 USD

At the Gate (1918)

Manó Vesztróczy

8,000 USD

Toys (1909)

István Zichy

30,000 USD

Woman at the well (1916)

Sándor Bortnyik

4,000 USD

Boaters (Around 1916)

Sándor Bortnyik

4,000 USD

Please don't hurt me! (1944)

Gitta Gyenes

6,000 USD

Cacti (1898)

Géza Vastagh

6,000 USD

Still life with Lamp (Around 1937)

Anna Lesznai

12,000 USD

Dancing women (1912)

Ferenc Medgyessy

10,000 USD

Nude (Around 1927)

József Klein

4,000 USD

Padova (1917)

Gyula Kövér

12,000 USD

Girl with a vase (1927)

Gyula Hincz

2,800 USD

French landscape (1924)

Józsa Járitz

30,000 USD

Village (1907)

Géza Faragó

12,000 USD

Tihany (1934)

Gyula Marosán

45,000 USD

Nude (1927)

Sándor Trauner

35,000 USD

Still life with a broken vase (1908)

Pál Jávor

20,000 USD

Male portrait (1920-as évek eleje)

Hugó Scheiber

40,000 USD

Rococo Prince in Blue (Around 1912)

Lajos Gulácsy

18,000 USD

Hunting (Around 1900)

Antal Szirmai

18,000 USD

Indian sunset (Around 1930)

Erzsébet Sass Brunner

8,000 USD

Male portrait (Around 1918)

Béla Uitz

3,000 USD

Rest (Around 1940)

Jenő Szabados

5,000 USD

Still life (1930-as évek második fele)

Géza Vörös

10,000 USD

On a Budapest beach (1932)

János Török

3,200 USD

Medium drawings (2 pieces) (Around 1900)

János Franyeczky

5,000 USD

Japanese girl (Around 1935)

Henrik Ripszám

2,500 USD

Hunting dog (Around 1850)

Austrian painter

3,000 USD

The Place for My Rose in Budapest According to a '68 Plan (1969)

László Lakner

20,000 USD

Church at Pasarét (1939)

János Tibai Takács

2,000 USD

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Ibolya Csengery

(1900 - 1990)

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Ida Gömöri Raidl

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Lipót Gedő

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(1905 - ?)

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(1900 - 1984)

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Ada E. Karinthy

(1880 - 1955)

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Margit Muzslai Kampis

(1898 - 1981)

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(1908 - 1987)

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(1901 - 1990)

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László Kézdi Kovács

(1864 - 1942)

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(1900 - 1981)

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Margit Werner

(? - ?)

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Mihály Biró

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Artúr Lakatos

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Dénes Faddi Förstner

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Ernő Gyimesi Kásás

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Albert Fáy

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Edit Basch

(1895-1980)

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Póth István József

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László Kemény

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Iván Komoróczy

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Mária Turán Hacker

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Iván Komoróczy

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Ervin Körmendi Frim

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Árpád Bardócz

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Dezső Bér

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László Félegyházi

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Géza Fónyi Friml

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Sándor Trauner

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Pál Jávor

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Géza Vörös

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Gyula Pap

(1899 - 1983)

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(1882 - 1932)

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Jenő Szabados

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Andor Kern

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