On Angel’s Wings, Carry this Forth
2015. Mar. 04. - 2015. May. 31.
Endre Vadász (1901–1944) was one of the undeservedly forgotten artists of Hungarian art between the two world wars. Although he was professionally recognised and successful from an early age, his fate as a Jew and his tragic death prevented him from fulfilling his artistic career. The current exhibition, in addition to presenting the artist’s oeuvre, emphasises Vadász’s Debreceness. The content of this short life’s work includes the period of moving and settling in Debrecen, and the development of ties with the local community. Vadász arrived in Debrecen in the summer of 1928 at the invitation of the literary historian Albert Kardos. Kardos invited him to teach at the Jewish Gymnasium, founded in 1921, where Vadász taught drawing and quantitative studies until 1933, and later supported himself solely through his art. From the very beginning he was actively involved in the public art life of Debrecen. In 1929 he became a member of the Ady Society’s art section, with whom he regularly exhibited at the Déri Museum. Through the folk writers and painters associated with the Ady Society, Vadász came close to the everyday world of peasant life: in his tempera paintings he captured the simple moments of life, the Hortobágy wilderness, the endless horizon of clouds, the subdued, monochrome colours of the gloomy autumn and the foggy, snowy winter.
Curator: Szoboszlai Lilla
Artist: Vadász Endre