Lajos Vajda

Lajos Vajda
File:Vajda Lajos Szentendrén, 1939.jpg Lajos Vajda in Szentendre (1939)
Born	6 August 1908 Zalaegerszeg
Died	7 September 1941 Budakeszi
Nationality	Hungarian
Movement	Avant-garde

Lajos Vajda (Hungarian: Vajda Lajos, 1908, Zalaegerszeg - 1941, Budakeszi) was a Hungarian Painter.

He was a student of István Csók at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1927-30. He studied together with Dezsõ Korniss at Fernand Léger in Paris in 1930-34 where he was introduced to cubism and surrealism.

He lived and worked in Szentendre, Hungary. Following the method of composers Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály he collected folk art motifs in Szentendre and Szigetmonostor for his artworks.

He combined religious (Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic and Jewish) symbols, architectural and folk art motifs, abstract, figurative, and surrealistic elements on his pictures to create complex visionary images. His last abstract surreal drawings foreshadow the horrors of World War II. He died of tuberculosis in 1941.

He is considered to be the most distinctive of the Hungarian avant-garde movement. His art influenced generations of Hungarian artists among them the members of the European School Art Group (established in 1945) and the Vajda Lajos Studio (established in 1972).

His works can be found in museums and private collections, among them in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest and in the Vajda Lajos Museum in Szentendre, Hungary.

Famous works

• Vajda Self-portrait in a Cap 1925.jpg

  Self-portrait in a Cap, 1924

• Fics.jpg

  Fics, 1928

• Párduc és liliom 1930-33.jpg

  Leopard and lilies, 1930–33

• Tolsztoj és Gandhi 1930-33.jpg

  Tolsztoj and Gandhi, 1930–33

• Vajda Still-life on a Table of Horseshoe Form 1934.jpg

  Still-life on a Table of Horseshoe Form, 1934

• Vajda Churches, Trees, Dotted Forms 1934.jpg

  Churches, trees, dotted forms, 1934

• Torony 1935.jpg

  Tower, 1935

• Vajda Two Sisters 1936.jpg

  Two sister, 1936

• Self Portrait with a Skull.jpg

  Portrait with a Skull, 1936

• Vajda Self-portrait with Hold-up Icon 1936.jpg

  Self-portrait with Hold-up Icon, 1936

• Liliomos önarckép 1936.jpg

  Self portrait with lilies 1936

• Vajda Self-portrait with Icon 1936.jpg

  Self-portrait with Icon, 1936

• Házak ciril betűkkel 1936.jpg

  Houses with ciril letters, 1936

• Vajda Friends 1937.jpg

  Friends, 1937

• Vajda Houses at Szentendre with Crucifix 1937.jpg

  Houses at Szentendre with Crucifix, 1937

• Vajda Collage with the Painter's Figure 1937.jpg

  Collage with the Painter's Figure, 1937

• Indián csónak 1938.jpg

  Native boat, 1938

• Vajda Huge Landscape Mask 1938.jpg

  Huge Landscape Mask, 1938

• Őstermészet 1938.jpg

  Nature, 1938

• Ezüst Gnóm.jpg

  Silver gnome, 1940

• Lovas 1940.jpg

  Rider, 1940

• Háború - harc 1940.jpg

  War, 1940

• Bagoly fészekkel 1940.jpg

  Owl with nest, 1940

External links

• Lajos Vajda