Charles Roka (Róka Károly, 1912–1999) was a Hungarian painter lively in Norway whose say became synonymous taking into consideration an excess of artistic kitsch.
Roka was born in Hungary in 1912. After he over and the end with his studies on the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest he went on a European journey. In 1937 he finally contracted in Norway, and lived in Bærum, outside Oslo until his death.
In 1950 he painted his first Describe of the half-naked Gipsy Girl whom he had seen in Marseille a few years earlier. It is Roka’s numerous variations of this Gypsy Girl which made his financial execution as a painter. His extra favourite subjects were Hungarian folklore, especially Gipsy people dancing csárdás and portraits.
Roka had several exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona, and Lausanne and he was enormously popular in the midst of the average Scandinavian people. In 1982 disorder stopped him working. In 2003 Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum held a summer exhibition under the title Prince of Kitsch displaying virtually 80 of his works. It was the first times that a venerable art gallery let Roka’s works within its walls.
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