Endre Rozsda

Infobox Artist
name = Endre Rozsda
Born = Mohács Hungary


imagesize = 180px
caption = Endre Rozsda à Bateau Lavoir
Photo by Lucien Hervé
birthdate = birth date|1913|11|18|mf=y
location = Mohács, Hungary
deathdate = death date and age|1999|9|17|1913|11|18|mf=y
deathplace = Paris, France
nationality = French
field = Painting, Drawing, Photograph
movement = Surrealism
awards = Copley Prize, 1964

Endre Rozsda (Mohács, 18 November 1913. - Paris, 17 September 1999.) was a Hungarian-French painter.

Life

Rozsda was born in Mohacs, Hungary on 18 November 1913. .

Becouse of the german occupation he had to return to Budapest. In 1945 he was one of the founders of the European School, a school of modern art in Hungary. After 1948 all non-official art forms were prohibited by the communist regime. Rozsda painted in secret and could not exhibit his pictures. , Rozsda came back to France.

He had many exhibitions at the Furstenberg Gallery (1957, 1963, 1965), the preface to the catalogue was written by Andre Breton. In 1961 Rozsda participated in the international exhibition of Surrealism at the Gallery Schwarz in Milan. At the same year, his works were exhibited in memory of “L’Art Dégéneré” at the Alte Pinakothek of Munich and at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.

In the 60's he continued creating his own word that had been transcended the surrealism. In 1964 he received the Copley Prize (USA) from a jury comprised of Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Darius Milhaud and Marcel Duchamp.

He became a French citizen in 1970 and moved to the Bateau Lavoir. He died in Paris on 17 September 1999.cite web|url=http://www.rozsda.com/bio/bio.htm|title=Rozsda - Biographie|accessdate=2008-09-29]

elected works

Stravinsky (1976), Private collection

References

*André Breton: "Le Surréalisme et la Peinture", Gallimard, Paris, 1965
*Dictionnaire général du Surréalisme et ses environs, P. U. F. Ed., 1982
*Sarane Alexandrian, André Breton, Dominique Desanti, Péter Esterházy, Françoise Gilot, Édouard Jaguer, François Lescun, Joyce Mansour, Érik Orsenna, David Rosenberg (ed): "Rozsda, l'Oeil en Fête", Somogy Editions d'art, Paris, 2002
*David Rosenberg (ed): "Rozsda", Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2001

External links

* [http://www.rozsda.com Endre Rozsda - Official site]
* [http://www.imj.org.il/Imagine/dada_surrealism/item.asp?table=comb&itemNum=194447 The Israel Museum, Jeruzsálem]
* [http://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/site.php?inc=mutargy&muId=502&menuId=67 Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest]
* [http://www.osaarchivum.org/files/2006/rozsda_katalogus.pdf Everyday life in Hungary throughout the 1950s by Endre Rozsda]