Pre-War Figurative Art
(1922 - 1950)

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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
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Gitta Gyenes
(1880 - 1960)
Vera Freund
(1924 - 2012)
Mária Lehel
(1889 - 1973)
Jenő Krón
(1882 - 1974)
Ödön Miklósi
(1881 - 1942)
Thomas Bodnár
(1882 - ?)
István Cserepes
(1901 - 1944)
Lenke Szemere
(1906 - 1993)
Ferenc Helbing
(1870 - 1958)
Artúr Podolini-Volkmann
(1891 - 1943)
Jenő Szantrucsek
(1903 - 1965)
Lajos Vajda
(1908 - 1941)
Ernest Klausz
(1894 - 1970)
Attila Sassy
(1880 - 1967)
Olga Hadzsy
(1880 - 1954)
Andor Sugár
(1903 - 1944)
Magda Frank
(1914 - 1997)
Pál Bor
(1889 - 1982)
Nelly Timkó
(1905 - 1979)
István Dési Huber
(1895 - 1944)
Mariska Undi
(1877 - 1959)
Árpád Basch
(1873 - 1945)
János Tábor
(1890 - 1956)
Róbert Berény
(1887 - 1953)
Sándor Bortnyik
(1893 - 1976)
Mela Hanna
(1892 – 1972)
Piroska Futásfalvi Márton
(1899 - 1996)
Anna Bartoniek
(1896 -1978)
Alice Endresz
(1899 - 1953)
Erzsébet Lóránt
(1898 - 1963)
Alice Bélaváry
(1901 - 1972)
Klára Schossberger
(1893 - 1958)
Pál Miháltz
(1899 - 1988)
István Pekáry
(1905 - 1981)
Ernő Schubert
(1903-1960)
János Marosi Tímár
(1901 - 1961)
Ferenc Lehel
(1885 - 1975)
Jolán Gross-Bettelheim
(1900 - 1972)
György Román
(1903 - 1981)
Aladár Kacziány
(1887 - 1978)
Ernő Adler Kaba
( 1912 - 1989)
Andor Endre Fenyő
(1904 - 1971)
Viktor Erdei
(1879 - 1945)
Manó Vesztróczy
(1875 - 1955)
Erzsébet Sass Brunner
(1889–1950)
Margit Galambos
()
József Gróf
(1892 - 1944)
Rezső Mihály
(1889 - 1972)
József Bató
(1888 - 1966)
Ibolya Csengery
(1900 - 1990)
Ida Gömöri Raidl
(1894 - 1947)
Lipót Gedő
(1887 - 1952)
Géza Pap
(1883 - after 1952)
Ili Szirmay
(1896 - 1945)
Irma Berky
(1900 - 1945 vagy 1946)
András Csiky
(1894 - 1971)
Dezső Fáy
(1888 - 1954)
Gyula Kövér
(1883 - 1950)
Gyula Tálos
(1884 - 1976)
János Schnitzler
(1908 - 1944)
Lilly Leicht
(1905 - ?)
Imre Kupferstein
(? - 1944)
Elza Honti Pariss
(? - ?)
Lajos Csabai Ékes
(1896 -1944)
Rózsa Dabis
(1900 - 1984)
Margit Csabai Rott
(1893 - 1973)
Ella Hegedűs
(1900k - ?)
Ada E. Karinthy
(1880 - 1955)
Margit Muzslai Kampis
(1898 - 1981)
Kató Petrich
(1908 - 1987)
Andor Kántor
(1901 - 1990)
László Kézdi Kovács
(1864 - 1942)
Győző Viktor Ráfael
(1900 - 1981)
Margit Werner
(? - ?)
István Éless
(1908 - 1961)
László Medgyes
(1892 - 1947/1948)
Ida Hallósyné Nágel
(1898 - 1941)
János Tibai Takács
(1876 - 1943)
Sándor A. Tóth
(1904 – 1980)
Hugó Scheiber
(1873 - 1950)
Kis Sarolta Komáromi Kacz Endréné
( 1883 - 1954)
Zoltán Wessel
(1910 - 1992)
György Békeffi
(1901 - 1944)
Ferenc Zajti
(1886 - 1961)
Imre Révész
(1859 - 1945)
Ilona Hámor
(1904 - ?)
László Bartha
(1902 - 1988)
András Csikós Tóth
(1902 - 1963)
Elek Győri
(1905 - 1957)
Gyula Hincz
(1904 - 1986)
Józsa Járitz
(1893 - 1986)
János Héjjas
(1906-2001)
Hajnalka Kontulyné Fuchs
(1903 - 2000)
Anna Oelmacher
(1908 - 1991)
Tibor Pólya
(1886 - 1937)
Mihály Biró
(1886-1948)
Artúr Lakatos
(1880 - 1968)
Dénes Faddi Förstner
(1901 - 1945)
Ernő Gyimesi Kásás
(1901 - 1994)
Albert Fáy
(1821 - 1892)
Edit Basch
(1895-1980)
Póth István József
(1898-1957)
László Kemény
(1901 - 1978)
Iván Komoróczy
(1869-1935)
Mária Turán Hacker
(1886 - 1967)
Iván Komoróczy
(1869 - 1935)
Ervin Körmendi Frim
(1885-1939)
Árpád Bardócz
(1882 - 1938)
György János Simon
(1894 - 1968)
Dezső Bér
(1875 - 1924)
László Félegyházi
(1907-1986)
László Cseney Vuchetich
(1905 – 1983)
Róza Beszedits
(1857 - 1943)
István Zichy
(1879 - 1951)
Ferenc Klein
(1910 - 1930)
Anna Lesznai
(1885 - 1966)
Angéla Szuly
(1893 - 1976)
Géza Vastagh
(1866 - 1919)
Géza Fónyi Friml
(1899 - 1971)
József Klein
((1896 - 1945))
Géza Faragó
(1877 - 1928)
Sándor Trauner
(1906 - 1993)
Pál Jávor
(1880 - 1923)
Géza Vörös
(1897 - 1957)
Gyula Pap
(1899 - 1983)
Lajos Gulácsy
(1882 - 1932)
Jenő Szabados
(1911 - 1942)
Andor Kern
(1906 - ?)
János Török
(1907 - 1980)
Henrik Ripszám
(1889 - 1876)