Vilmos Aba-Novák worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Vilmos Aba-Novák as Hungarian artist (1894–1941).
Vilmos Aba-Novák was born at Budapest in 1894. His recorded nationality is Hungary. He trained at Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
He worked as painter, printmaker and artist.
His recorded movement is expressionism.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Hungary shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Vilmos Aba-Novák died in 1941, aged 47. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Expressionism
