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Alternative names	Vilmos Aba Novák; Vilmos Aba-Novak; Vilmos Aba Novak
Description	Hungarian painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death	15 March 1894	29 September 1941
Location of birth/death	Budapest	Budapest
Authority file	: Q18165 VIAF: 67642315 ISNI: 0000000110688425 ULAN: 500026028 LCCN: n99018737 Open Library: OL5587142A WorldCat

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ABA-NOVÁK Vilmos

(1894, Budapest - 1941, Budapest)

Életrajz

Festõ és grafikus. 1912-ben iratkozott be a Képzõmûvészeti Fõiskolára. Ösztöndíjasként Szolnokon Fényes Adolf mellett dolgozott, katonai szolgálata után Olgyai Viktornál grafikát tanult. 1922-ben rendezte elsõ grafikai kiállítását az Ernst Múzeumban. Az expresszionizmus és az olasz novecento formanyelvét magába olvasztó, harsány színezésû piktúrájának kedvelt témája volt a vásár, a cirkusz világa.

1921-23 nyarán Nagybányán járt. 1925-ben a Szinyei Társaság grafikai díját nyerte Savanarola c. rézkarcával. 1928-tól három éven át a római Magyar Akadémián dolgozott, az ún. római iskola egyik jellegzetes képviselõje volt. 1931-ben mutatta be Budapesten Rómában festett anyagát, majd ugyanebben az évben Milánóban gyûjteményes kiállítást rendezett, több képe került olasz gyûjteményekbe. 1923-ban a paduai egyházmûvészeti kiállításon aranyérmet nyert. 1933-ban készült a jászszentandrási római katolikus templom freskója, 1936-ban a szegedi Hõsök Kapuja (1945 után lemeszelték), 1938-ban a székesfehérvári Szt. István-mauzóleum és a városmajori templom freskóit festette. 1933-ban állami kis aranyérmet, az 1936-i párizsi világkiállításon Grand Prix-t nyert. 1939-tõl a Képzõmûvészeti Fõiskola tanára volt.

A modern magyar festészet, különösen a monumentális piktúra egyik eredeti tehetsége, a két világháború közti idõszak ünnepelt freskófestõje, hivatalosan támogatott mûvész volt. Halála után, 1943-ban a Nemzeti Szalonban, 1962-ben az Magyar Nemzeti Galériában, 1963-ban pedig Varsóban, Prágában és Kassán, 1964-ben Székesfehérvárott rendeztek mûveibõl gyûjteményes kiállítást.

ABA-NOVÁK, Vilmos (1894, Budapest - 1941, Budapest)

Biography

Painter and graphic artist. After his studies at the Art School in 1912, he worked under Adolf Fényes and after military service, he took up drawing at Viktor Olgyai. His favourite subject matter was the world of markets and circuses which appeared in his paintings with the noisy colours of expressionism and Italian novocento.

His spent the summers of 1921-23 in Nagybánya. He was at the Hungarian Academy in Rome for three years after 1928, and was a renowned representative of the so-called Roman School. He painted frescoes for the Roman Catholic church of Jászszentandrás, and Hõsök Kapuja in Szeged in 1936 (white-washed after 1945), he worked on frescoes of the Szent István Mausoleum in Székesfehérvár and on those of the Church in Városmajor, Budapest in 1938. He was a teacher at the Art School from 1939.

He was a talented and original representative of modern Hungarian painting, of monumental painting in special, a celebrated fresco painter and an artist officially patronized by the aristocracy.