Photograph of the painting Margaret Bridge by Lajos Tihanyi.
Studio interior with the painting Legacy, cca. 1920.
… applied graphic work. He also worked in many other fields and areas, however, creating autonomous paintings, stamp designs and illustrations, and also receiving commissions for fairground and monumental art projects. Based on the artist’s estate, which has been preserved and looked after by his heirs, beyond this well known image of the graphic idol, a much more nuanced picture emerges of the artist’s activities. György Konecsni’s experimentally spirited oeuvre, encompassing a wide …
… the 19th and 20th centuries, Hungarian art history writing and art criticism, and the history of painting in the Great Hungarian Plain. He is a regular contributor to arts journals, has edited several volumes of studies and catalogues, and has worked on the methodology of academic publishing. He has many years of experience as teacher in higher education, as an editor and as a curator in Hungary and abroad. List of publications
… a special focus on the reception of Pop Art and Photorealism, as well as contemporary trends in painting. His studies have appeared in such catalogues and volumes as International Pop (Walker Art Center, 2015), Art in Hungary 1956–1980: Doublespeak and Beyond (Thames & Hudson, London, 2018), Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary (Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 2018), Abstract Hungary (Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2019) and Dóra Maurer (Tate Publishing, …