Klie, ZoltánSzekszárd, 1897 - 1992, Budapest

He was one of János Vaszary's pupils at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts. From 1925 until 1927 he lived in Paris. As his painting was showing unaffected simplicity of manner, it was always hard to align him with any trends. His soaring imagination drifted his basically instinctive art between Surrealism and fairytales in which rapturous loving couples, peculiar landscape of a "reversed" perspective, rand vegetation and the typical products of modern technology, machines and industrial scenes were presented. Idyill, miracle and anxiety were jointly present inhis art, endowing the motives with ancient primitiveness and with sophisticated mysticism. He used the colours withou...