Bela Czobel - Artist Info

About Bela Czobel

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Czobel Bela
  • Biography

    Bela Czabel, (Hungarian form Czóbel Béla) was born September 4, 1883, in Budapest, Hungary and died January 30, 1976, in Budapest). He was a painter and graphic artist, and one of the most highly regarded figures in 20th-century Hungarian arts.

    Czobel was a student of Béla Iványi Grünwald at the Free School of Painting in Nagybánya (now Baia Mare, Romania), and from 1902 to 1903, he studied in Munich and at the Académie Julian* in Paris.

    At the Salon d'Automne,* he exhibited his work with Fauvist* artists, and his 1905 painting Kislány ágy elott ("Little Girl in Front of a Bed") was influenced by Fauvism. In 1911 he became a member of the Nyolcak ("The Eight"), an influential Modernist group in Budapest.

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