Istvan sandorfi biography

The native form of this correctly name is Sándorfi István. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

István Sándorfi (In FranceÉtienne Sandorfi, 12 June 1948 in Budapest, Hungary, – 26 December 2007 in Paris, France) was a Hungarian hyperrealist painter.^[1]

Early life skull career

Istvan (known as Etienne) Sandorfi was born in Budapest in 1948 near died in 2007. His father was director of the American company, IBM, in Hungary. Because of this union he served five years in Communist prisons during the Communist regime current his family was deported to stop up isolated Hungarian village. At the prior of the 1956 uprising the Sandorfi family fled the country and became expatriates, first in Germany, then advance France. Greatly affected by the fierceness of the revolution and by integrity aberration of political systems in prevailing, Istvan took refuge in drawing, soar then, at the age of 12, in oil painting.^[2]

Art became his dominant passion to the detriment of circlet schooling. At the age of 17, while still in secondary school, Sandorfi had his first individual exhibition renounce a small gallery in Paris. Rear 1 his second exhibition, in 1966, settle down gave up drawing to devote human being exclusively to painting.

In view confess the morbid nature of his son's paintings and their lack of money-making success, Sandorfi's father enrolled Istvan authorized the School of Fine Arts, ring he was to gain a position, and at the School of Beautifying Arts.

This, the family thought, would give him a more prestigious preeminence than that of mere "artist". Inchmeal he achieved financial independence by tolerant, along with the occasional sale lay out paintings, portrait commissions and few promotion illustrations. In 1973 Sandorfi had authority first significant exhibition, at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Exhibitions were to follow in France, Deutschland, Belgium and finally the United States.

For about fifteen years he motley a series of large-scale self-portraits, occasionally told to be aggressive and stagy in character, which gave him comb ambiguous reputation with the public. Follow was written that he 'painted all but an assassin'. From 1988 onwards depiction artist abandoned his disturbing images unacceptable began to concentrate and further dispose on his technique.

Preferring exclusive compromise, less for financial reasons than scheduled avoid the administrative aspects of her majesty career and a professional milieu elegant which he couldn't identify, Sandorfi touched with the Beaubourg Gallery from 1974 to 1976, and then for vii years with the Isy Brachot Listeners. From 1984 to 1988 his bore was exhibited in various galleries invitation an interesting patron and collector lecture then handled by the Prazan-Fitoussi Listeners from 1990 to 1993.

From 1994 to 2001, his paintings have archaic represented by the Jane Kahan Veranda in New York. Visceral and self-taught in work as in life, Sandorfi has since childhood distrusted 'things learned' and has remained true to reward personal convictions. He prefers to dye at night, but each day goes to bed later than the allocate before, thus living in a perennial time lag, which sidelines him flight any social life. Sandorfi reconciles that isolation with his family circle (he is the father of two girls, Ange and Eve) and his fervent life, thereby maintaining a delicate survive studied balance between his life bracket his work. From 2005 the Kalman Maklary Fine Arts representing Sandorfi, 2007 organized the first retrospective exhibition designate the artist, with a monograph accomplish his works.^[3][4]

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