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Ödön Márffy (b. Budapest 30 Nov. 1878; d. Budapest 3 Dec. 1959); Hungarian painter, one of The Eight in Budapest, credited with bringing cubism, Fauvism and expressionism to the country.
Following a short basic training, he obtained a grant to study art in Paris, from the autumn of 1902. He started as a student of Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian, as did numerous several modern-minded Hungarian painters after him, but a few months later, ostensibly for financial reasons, he transferred to the École des Beaux-Arts. There Fernand Cormon was his teacher. With classmates they often went to Ambroise Vollard’s art dealership together, where Márffy was most impressed by the pictures of Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Rouault and Georges Braque. He claims to have met Matisse in 1905, who had been sent down from the École des Beaux-Arts, but would return there from time to time, and to have visited him in his studio once.
...The only member of the Eight to work regularly in Hungary, he had considerable authority in the local scene.
...Meanwhile, his style grew softer, more accessible, as well as airier and more decorative. His canvases long retained the fauvist colors and remnants of the constructivist space structures, and he would return to his earlier vision for the sake of the odd picture or two. By the end of the 1920s, he replaced the vibrant colors with a scumbled, misty, more relaxed atmosphere, and the style became smoother, more decorative, more palatable for a middle-class audience. The landscapes, garden and seaside scenes, nudes and still lifes he painted between the wars resemble the approach of the École de Paris painters, especially of Moïse Kisling, Jules Pascin, Van Dongen and Raoul Dufy.
Ödön Márffy died in the Kútvölgyi Hospital on 3 December 1959, three days after his 81st birthday.
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