17 Facts About Lajos Tihanyi

Lajos Tihanyi was a Hungarian painter and lithographer who achieved international renown working outside his country, primarily in Paris, France.

In Paris, Lajos Tihanyi gradually shifted to more abstract styles in his work.

Lajos Tihanyi was born in Budapest in 1885 to a Hungarian-Jewish family in 1885.

Lajos Tihanyi studied drawing at the School of Industrial Art and Design, as Hungary did not then have a fine art academy, but he is considered largely self-taught as an artist.

Lajos Tihanyi aligned with younger painters, who were ready to absorb new directions, including the brilliant use of color by Fauvists.

Lajos Tihanyi went in a different direction from the aesthetic of naturalism of many in the colony.

Lajos Tihanyi helped introduce the Post-Impressionist concepts and techniques of Cubism and Expressionism to art circles in Hungary.

At the age of 24, Lajos Tihanyi was one of The Eight at the leading edge of Hungarian art life.

The writer and journalist Lajos Tihanyi Kassak founded A Tett in 1915, and later Ma ; these published articles on literature and art, and provided reproductions of some work.

Lajos Tihanyi was one of several younger artists who had achieved recognition before the revolution of 1919.

Lajos Tihanyi had aided the communists, and there were reprisals afterward against allies of the revolution.

Lajos Tihanyi worked and lived for the rest of his life abroad, first briefly in Vienna, then a few years in Berlin, which was flooded with radical artists and intellectuals from Eastern and Central Europe.

Lajos Tihanyi was friends with the photographer Andre Kertesz, whom he introduced to the Parisian community.

In turn, Lajos Tihanyi often appeared in photos by Kertesz and Brassai of groups at their favorite cafes.

Lajos Tihanyi became internationally known for his painting and lithography, with much of his best work held by museums outside Hungary.

Lajos Tihanyi lived the remainder of his life in Paris.

Lajos Tihanyi was buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, where the author Robert Desnos gave the valedictory, standing next to the politician Michael Karolyi, "a leading figure of the 1918 Revolution".