13 Facts About Victor Vasarely

Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement.

Victor Vasarely's work titled Zebra, created in 1937, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op art.

Victor Vasarely worked for a ball-bearing company in accounting and designing advertising posters in Budapest.

Victor Vasarely became a graphic designer and a poster artist during the 1930s combining patterns and organic images.

Victor Vasarely worked as a graphic artist and as a creative consultant at the advertising agencies Havas, Draeger, and Devambez.

Victor Vasarely thought of opening an institution modeled after Sandor Bortnyik's muhely and developed some teaching material for it.

Victor Vasarely eventually went on to produce art and sculpture using optical illusion.

In October 1967, designer Will Burtin invited Victor Vasarely to make a presentation to Burtin's Vision '67 conference, held at New York University.

On 5 June 1970, Victor Vasarely opened his first dedicated museum with over 500 works in a renaissance palace in Gordes.

Also, in 1976 his large kinematic object Georges Pompidou was installed in the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Victor Vasarely Museum located at his birthplace in Pecs, Hungary, was established with a large donation of works by Victor Vasarely.

In 1987, the second Hungarian Victor Vasarely museum was established in Zichy Palace in Budapest with more than 400 works.

Victor Vasarely died age 90 in Paris on 15 March 1997.

In 2019, a temporary exhibition of Victor Vasarely's work titled Le Partage des Formes was displayed in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.