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Technique: watercolor on paper

Size: 42 x 30 cm

Endre Bálint (Budapest, October 27, 1914 – Budapest, May 3, 1986) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist, one of the most significant figures of modern Hungarian art, the avant-garde.

He was born in 1914 into an intellectual family, his father, Aladár Bálint, was a well-known art critic in the literal periodic called West, and his uncle was Ernő Osvát. (His sister Klára Bálint became the wife of the writer and literary historian Antal Szerb in 1938.) His son István Bálint is a poet, actor, and director.

At the age of 16, he was admitted to the graphic arts department of the Hungarian Royal School of Applied Arts, majoring in advertising graphics, but it soon became clear that he was also strongly attracted to painting. At the age of twenty, he traveled to Paris for three months, the modern painting he met there committed him to his later career.

After returning home, in 1935, he met Lajos Vajda at the private school of János Vaszary, with whom he soon formed a human-artistic friendship. In 1936, he studied at Vilmos Aba-Novák's private school. From 1937 to 1940, many young painters belonged to the circle of Lajos Vajda and Dezső Korniss in Szentendre, including Endre Bálint. In 1936, he fell ill with a lung problem. In 1938, his first collection exhibition was organized in the Tamás Gallery.

From then on, he was at the center of the attention of critics dealing with the development of modern Hungarian art, especially the significant art historian and critic Ernő Kállai, who was a regular art critic of Népszava in 1939-1942.

 In 1945, he was one of the founding members of the group of artists called the European School. In 1947, he spends a longer time in Paris, meets André Breton, and participates in the International Surrealist World Exhibition. Until 1956, he was not allowed to organize an exhibition in Hungary, he was placed in the forbidden category.

He lived in Paris between 1957 and 1962. His famous Bible illustrations were made here. After 1962, in Hungary, he was gradually transferred from the tolerated category to the subsidized one. He took part in many exhibitions with his pictures abroad and then at home. In the last decade of his life, he received every possible award, including the Kossuth Prize before his death. He died of a lung problem in 1986, after a long illness, while still at the peak of his creative powers.

Most recently, in 2007, the Home Gallery in Budapest organized a commemorative exhibition of his works.

 His painting took Dadaist, Constructivist, Surrealist and abstract directions, but he preserved his lyrical tone even in the midst of the most daring free associations.

 Most of his works are kept by the Ferenczy Museum in Szentendre. Around 10 of them are located in the Deák Collection in Székesfehérvár, but many of his works are privately owned.

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