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Adolphe Fenyes

Adolphe Fenyes (1867 - 1945) was active/lived in Hungary.  Adolphe Fenyes is known for Painting.

Fényes was the son of a rabbi, Simon Fischmann, and was expected to become a lawyer.  It was whilst attending law school in Budapest that he decided to change the course of his destiny and enrolled at the Budapest Institute of Design as a student of Bertalan Székely between 1884-87.  Subsequent studies in Weimar with Max Thedy and in Paris at the Académie Julian followed.  Under the tutelage of his mentors Fényes adopted a naturalist style and quickly emerged as one of the most significant painters of the Nagybánya school. 

Having returned to Hungary in 1894, Fenyes helped form the Szolnok artists colony in 1898.  It was from this moment onwards that he turned to a more impressionistic style of painting and his palette lightened significantly.  In 1905 Fényes had his first one-man show at the National Gallery in Budapest and his success as an artist was at its zenith.  By the late 1920s and early 1930s Fényes' artistic career became incr   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1610 characters.]  Artist bio

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