Lajos Tihanyi (29 October 1885 – 11 June 1938) was a Hungarian painter and lithographer who achieved international renown functional outside his country, primarily in Paris, France. After emigrating in 1919, he never returned to Hungary, even upon a visit.
Born in Budapest, as a youngster man, Tihanyi was ration of the “Neoimpressionists” or “Neos”, and highly developed the influential avant-garde group of painters called The Eight (A Nyolcak), founded in 1909 in Hungary. They were experimenting behind styles of Post-Impressionism and rejected the naturalism of the Nagybánya artists’ colony. Their be in is considered intensely influential in establishing modernism in Hungary to 1918, when the First World War and revolution overtook the country.
After the fall of the Hungarian Democratic Republic in 1919, Tihanyi left and lived briefly in Vienna. He moved upon to Berlin for a few years, where he connected past many Hungarian émigré writers and artists, such as Gyorgy Bölöni and the far along Brassaï. By 1924 Tihanyi and numerous other artists moved to Paris, where he stayed for the remainder of his life.
In Paris, Tihanyi gradually shifted to more abstract styles in his work. His paintings and lithographs are held by the Hungarian National Gallery, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City, among other institutions, and by private collectors. With the centenary of The Eight’s first exhibition, Tihanyi has been featured in five exhibitions in the past 2004, including ones held in 2010 and 2012 in Hungary and Austria, and different in 2012 devoted to a solo retrospective of his work.
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