1885 - 1938: Lajos Tihanyi (HU)
(source of the photo: https://x.com/dean_frey/status/1243957697357070337?lang=ar)
Lajos Tihanyi (29 October 1885 – 11 June 1938) was a Hungarian painter and lithographer who achieved international renown working outside his country, primarily in Paris, France.
Due to meningitis, Tihanyi became deaf at the age of eleven.
As a result of his serious illness, he became deaf-mute at the age of 11 and was forced to give up his secondary school studies. He started drawing, and in 1904 he enrolled at the School of Applied Arts in Budapest.
Later he became a student of a private school, and between 1907 and 1910 he trained in the summer at the artists' colony in Nagybánya (Baia Mare- now in Romania).
In 1907 he made a short study trip to Paris and Italy, where Gaugauin, Cézanne and Fauvism influenced his art. In Baia Mare he joined the "neo-impressionists (neosists)", and from 1909 he joined the group of artists of the Eight.
In 1911 and 1912 he participated in their shows at the National Salon in Budapest. In 1914 he presented larger collections of his works at the Brüko Salon in Vienna. At the end of the 1910s he met Lajos Kassák, who organized an exhibition for him in 1918 in the salon of MA (Today) Váci Street in Budapest.
After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he emigrated to Vienna and in March 1920 the Moderne Galerie organized a solo exhibition of his works.
He soon moved to Berlin, and in 1924 he moved from there to Paris, where he lived until his death. He was quickly accepted by the French art world, who were associated with Jean Cocteau, Tristan Tzara, Brâncuşi and Utrillo. His still lifes, portraits and cityscapes made around 1920, which exhibited analytical and then synthetic cubism styles, were replaced by increasingly abstract compositions, reaching complete abstraction by the early 1930s. In 1933 he joined the Abstraction-Créacion group. His oeuvre returned to Hungary in the early 1970s.
(with thanks to Mariann Gergely, Chief curator Hungarian National Gallery, 6 January 2025)
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Tihanyi