Budapest, Hungary - This exhibition is an endeavour to present the fauvist current in Hungarian painting, which emerged in the first decade of the 20th century and which has never been presented by any other exhibition.  The artists whose work is displayed here - Róbert Berény, Géza Bornemisza, Béla Czóbel, Sándor Galimberti, Vilmos Perlrott Csaba, Lajos Tihanyi, Sándor Ziffer and others - did not form a group, and did not aspire to conceive an original theory.  However, they were closely knit by a common knowledge of French painting, first of all Gauguin's and Cézanne's art, as well as by a ready acceptance of the approach preached by Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, and Marquet, representatives of the then most recent French pictorial trend, Fauvism.  These Hungarian artists developed their own particular style, blending, besides the French inspiration, the Hungarian Nagybánya School tradition and accomplishments in plein air painting.

Instead of grouping the artists or presenting them in chronological order, the paintings of this exhibition were arranged according to major thematic units, also evoking the most important birthplaces of modern Hungarian art, that is, Paris, Nagybánya, Kaposvár and Nyergesújfalu.

Selected from the material of various French, Swiss and Hungarian museums and private collections in Europe and America, the almost 250 works exhibited include those by Róbert Berény, Géza Bornemisza, Dezső Czigány, Béla Czóbel, Sándor Galimberti, Béla Iványi Grünwald, Károly Kernstok, Ödön Márffy, József Nemes Lampérth, Vilmos Perlrott Csaba, József Rippl-Rónai, Lajos Tihanyi, Sándor Ziffer. Apart from the Hungarian material, a smaller French collection can also be seen by the best-known of the French fauves, such as Henri Matisse, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, and Maurice de Vlaminck.

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