Bela Kadar - Artist Info

About Bela Kadar

Name variants

Kadar Bela, Bela Kaddar
  • Biography

    Béla Kádár 1877-1956

    Born in Budapest, he became a distinctive modernist painter whose career spanned several decades.

    Kádár began his studies in 1896, he travel to Paris and Munich. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and won the Kohner prize in 1910.

    Kádár's early works, which he began exhibiting in 1918, showed the influence of the Secessionists and Post-impressionists. In 1923 he exhibited with his friend Hugo Scheiber in Berlin at Walden's Der Sturm Gallery; 57 of his works were shown. Der Sturm was one of the most important avant-garde galleries in Europe, Kádár continued to exhibit there for several years.

    Kádár traveled to the United States and stayed for a year. He...

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