Adolf Fenyes (Hungarian, 1867-1945) Slovakian landscape with farmstead signed lower right "Fenyes" oil on canvas h:54 w:68 cm Provenance: Private collection, Suffolk, and brought from Slovakia in the 1950s. Adolf Fenyes was one of the most distinguished Jewish-Hungarian painters of his time, with his work portraying the struggles of maintaining a Hungarian Jewish identity, particularly after the First World War. Fenyes studied at the Budapest Design institute, Mintarajziskola, after which studying in Weimar with Max Thedy before spending a year at the Academie Julian in Paris, where he exhibited two paintings during 1894. He then returned to Hungary to join the Benczúr School of the Arts. After the First World War Fenyes focused on the subject of Jewish identity. His life and work faced harsh anti-Semitic government restrictions from the 1920s onwards, and he was imprisoned in a forced labour camp in the 1930s, where he sadly died of starvation at the end of the Second World War. ,000 Craquelure overall and quite dirty. Loose in frame. One tiny paint loss lower left-hand corner.
Adolf Fenyes (Hungarian, 1867-1945) Slovakian landscape with farmstead signed lower right "Fenyes" oil on canvas h:54 w:68 cm Provenance: Private collection, Suffolk, and brought from Slovakia in the 1950s. Adolf Fenyes was one of the most distinguished Jewish-Hungarian painters of his time, with his work portraying the struggles of maintaining a Hungarian Jewish identity, particularly after the First World War. Fenyes studied at the Budapest Design institute, Mintarajziskola, after which studying in Weimar with Max Thedy before spending a year at the Academie Julian in Paris, where he exhibited two paintings during 1894. He then returned to Hungary to join the Benczúr School of the Arts. After the First World War Fenyes focused on the subject of Jewish identity. His life and work faced harsh anti-Semitic government restrictions from the 1920s onwards, and he was imprisoned in a forced labour camp in the 1930s, where he sadly died of starvation at the end of the Second World War. ,000 Craquelure overall and quite dirty. Loose in frame. One tiny paint loss lower left-hand corner.
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