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Vilmos Aba-Novák

1894 - 1941

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Vilmos Aba-Novák (Hungarian: Aba-Novák Vilmos, until 1912: Hungarian: Novák Vilmos; March 15, 1894 – September 29, 1941) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was an original representative of modern art in his country, and specifically of its modern monumental painting. He was also the celebrated author of frescoes and church murals at Szeged and Budapest, and was officially patronized by the Hungarian nobility. As a fresco painter, he completed numerous state and church commissions (for example: the frescoes of the Roman catholic church in Jászszentandrás, the Heroes' Gate in Szeged, the frescoes of the Szent István mausoleum in Székesfehérvár) in 1937 he won the World Exhibition in Paris, in 1940 the XXII. Grand Prize of the Venice Biennale. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vilmos Aba-Novák is the 1,195th most popular painter (up from 1,292nd in 2019), the 357th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 360th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Hungarian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vilmos Aba-Novák ranks 1,195 out of 2,023. Before him are Paja Jovanović, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Eugen Dücker, Alberto Burri, Mario Minniti, and Wang Meng. After him are Orest Kiprensky, Marie-Denise Villers, Albert Eckhout, Cornelis Schut, Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk, and Constant Permeke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Vilmos Aba-Novák ranks 127. Before him are Maria Restituta Kafka, Ivan Papanin, Mikheil Chiaureli, Kyuichi Tokuda, Ernesto Ambrosini, and David Butler. After him are Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Sofoklis Venizelos, Yury Tynyanov, Edgar Jung, Walter Byron, and Carlos Luz. Among people deceased in 1941, Vilmos Aba-Novák ranks 109. Before him are Grigory Shtern, Maurice Bavaud, Karl Neukirch, Giuseppe Amisani, Otto Strandman, and Alexander Svanidze. After him are Olga Kameneva, Dimitrios Golemis, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Mario García Menocal, George Minne, and Eugène Boch.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Vilmos Aba-Novák ranks 360 out of 1,077. Before him are Gyula Károlyi (1871), Peter Lax (1926), Bertalan Farkas (1949), József Eötvös (1813), Nándor Dáni (1871), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), Ervin Zádor (1935), Vilmos Zsigmond (1930), and Pál Kovács (1912). After him are Éva Székely (1927), Ferenc Kölcsey (1790), and Eva Gabor (1919).

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Among PAINTERS In Hungary

Among painters born in Hungary, Vilmos Aba-Novák ranks 8. Before him are Mihály Munkácsy (1844), Mihály Zichy (1827), Amrita Sher-Gil (1913), Gyula Benczúr (1844), Philip de László (1869), and László Mednyánszky (1852). After him are József Rippl-Rónai (1861), Igor Grabar (1871), Lajos Tihanyi (1885), Katarina Ivanović (1811), and Ilka Gedő (1921).

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