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    Biography of Lajos Ebneth

    Lajos Ebneth was born in Szilágysomlyó (Hungary) in 1902. In 1920, already studying chemical engineering, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, then at the Academy of Munich; he studied painting and sculpture there as a disciple of the symbolist Franz von Stuck in his «Meistreklasse». After a brief stay in Dresden and Berlin, he moved to The Hague (Netherlands) in 1923. There, he approached artists working for the De Stijl movement. Like his compatriot Vilmos Huszár, in the mid-1920s he produced works in the Dutch neoplastic spirit. He contributed to the revue i10 founded by Arthur Müller-Lehning (close to László Moholy-Nagy). His collaboration with Kurt Schwitters - who at the time published his revue Merz with Theo Van Doesburg and El Lissitzky - brought him closer to the European constructivist movement and earned him international renown. Lajos Ebneth also stayed several times in Germany and in November 1926 he exhibited at Der Sturm alongside Schwitters. A symbol of the European avant-garde movement of the first decades of the 20th century, the Berlin gallery Der Sturm (The Tempest) will make its mark on the international artistic field, which will undergo transformations affecting both its structure and its functioning.Lajos Ebneth’s contacts with the Bauhaus, where he was once a teacher, attracted him to graphic design and photography, and he showed his work through these new media at the Film und Foto exhibition organized by the German Werkbund in Stuttgart in 1929.From the mid-1930s, Lajos Ebneth made again figurative expressionist paintings and, later, sculptures. After several well-received solo exhibitions of sculpture in the United States, he emigrated to Peru in 1949; two public sculptures can still be seen today in Miraflores (Lima): Hommage à Salazar and Vers la gloire. Having come to Peru with Maria, his wife, the couple became friends with a group of architects who were captivated by the mysticism of their convictions.  In the 1950s, Lajos Ebneth’s art turned again to abstraction. Both the museums in Berlin and Utrecht have important spaces dedicated to the work of Lajos Ebneth.The artist died in Chaclacayo, near Lima, in 1982.

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* Revue internationale i10 fondée par Arthur Müller Lehning, Amstrerdam, 1927.
* Catalogue pour l’exposition de Lajos von Ebneth, Cornelis Veth, Kunstzaal Kleykamp, La Haye, 1936.
* Lajos von Ebneth de Gedrevenen, W. Vogelsang, Ed. J. C. Blommers, Den Haag, 1940.
* Lajos d'Ebneth - Studie van een ontwikkelingsgang, Jos de Gruyter, A.A.M. Stols-Uitgever, Den Haag, 1946.
* Lajos d’Ebneth, Obra Grafica 1919-1980, monographie, Maria Scholten de D'Ebneth, Grafica Morsom S.A.. Lima, Pérou, 1983.
* Catalogue de l'exposition rétrospective Lajos Ebneth au Centre Culturel Municipal Miraflores,  Lima, Pérou, 1986.
* Lajos d’Ebneth et l’avant-garde, 1923-1933, la redécouverte d’une prétendue contribution perdue à l’art moderne, Sjarel Ex, Centraal Museum, Uitgeverij, 2002.
* A szertelenségre hajlamos Ébneth Lajos, aki sokat elmélkedett - Életrajzi elemek magyarországi, hollandiai és perui éveiből. Erdélyi Művészet, vol. XI., 2010.
(Lajos Ébneth, qui a beaucoup médité, est enclin à la folie - éléments biographiques de ses années en Hongrie, aux Pays-Bas et au Pérou. Transylvanian Art, vol. XI. 2010.)
* Ilusión cusqueňa: aproximación a un proyecto de Lajos von Ebneth, L. Speluci, L. Busse, Ed. Plataforma Un rayo, 2019.
* Catalogue de l'exposition Cubism - Constructivism - Form Art, A. Husslein-Arco, A. Klee, Ed. Prestel, 2016
* Lajos von Ebneth, Henriëtte Rodéro, Ed. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 2020.
* Der Sturm and the Hungarian Avant-garde 1913-1932, 2022.
* Catalogue de l'exposition Les mouvements d'avant garde hongrois dans les années 1920, Institut Culturel hongrois, Paris, 2023.
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Art movements

  • + BAUHAUS / 1919-1933 / Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Vassili Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gerhard Marcks, Georg Muche, Oskar Schlemmer, etc.
  • + NON FIGURATIVE ART / 1942-1975 / Jean Bertholle, André Beaudin, Jeannie Dumesnil, Hanna Ben-Dov, Elvire Jan, Charles Lapicque, etc.
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