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Francis de Erdely (Hungarian: Erdélyi Ferenc) (May 3, 1904 – November 28, 1959)[1] was a Hungarian-American artist who was renowned in Europe and the United States for his powerful figure paintings and drawings as well as for his teaching abilities.

Francis de Erdely
Born
Erdélyi Ferenc

May 3, 1904
Budapest, Hungary
DiedNovember 28, 1959(1959-11-28) (aged 55)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
NationalityHungarian
EducationRoyal Academy of Art, Budapest; Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid; Sorbonne, Paris
Known forSculpture, Painting, Drawing
MovementSurrealism, Expressionism, Cubism, Modernism

Biography


Francis De Erdely was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1904.[2] De Erdely first studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Budapest (1919–1924),[3] as well as the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando) in Madrid and the prestigious Sorbonne and Ecole du Louvre in Paris.

De Erdely's technical abilities, brushwork, and composition were based in European classicism.[4] Politics began to inform his work when Fascism began to gain ground in Europe. As De Erdely's career developed, he became less focused on history painting and the themes of classical Antiquity. Subjects surrounding war, suffering, and human strength became present.

De Erdely immigrated to the United States in 1939.[5] Living in New York and Chicago initially, he was hired to paint portrait of wealthy patrons. He also painted images of the American Scene. It was after his move to Los Angeles, when his mature work developed and he established himself as an American artist.[4]

He is best known for his figure-based paintings done in Los Angeles during the 1940s and 1950s of immigrants, laborers, dancers, and social outsiders. It has been argued that this period of his work relate directly to De Erdely's own experience as an immigrant in a new country.[by whom?]


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  1. "Francis De Erdely". artnet. Retrieved 2020-05-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Falk, Peter H. (1985). Who was who in American art : compiled from the original thirty-four volumes of American art annual--Who's who in art, biographies of American artists active from 1898-1947. Internet Archive. Madison, Conn. : Sound View Press. ISBN 9780932087003.
  3. "Francis de Erdely papers, 1925-1968". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2020-05-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Artist Spotlight: Francis de Erdely". LA Modern. Retrieved 2020-05-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "Francis de Erdely, LACMA Collections". LACMA. Retrieved 2020-05-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "Francis de Erdely". Laguna Art Museum. Retrieved 2020-05-09.

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