Page 40 - Studio International - May 1965

Endre Nemes Art is a poor weapon in the
fight against death ...
What I aim at is expression.
But expression must be disciplined
by J. P. Hodin both by instinct and reason. Endre Nemes

End re Nemes was born on November 10th, Helsingfors. In February, 1940, he was
1909, in Pescaravad in Hungary, and obliged to leave Finland, and went to
studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden, which country he left six weeks
Prague from 1930 to 1934. He published later for Norway. A few days after his
a volume of poems in his native country, arrival in Norway the Nazis entered Oslo.
worked as an art critic and earned his Again he fled to Sweden where he
living as a caricaturist (anonymous). In obtained domicile and has since lived.
1933 he visited Paris for the first time. He hardly painted at all from the autumn
In December 1938, before the occupation of 1938 to the autumn of 1940. It was a
Changmg Forms 1964 of Prague, he fled to Finland where he time of silence and retreat. In 1941 Nemes
Mixed technique on canvas
160 x 130 cm. taught in the Free School of Painting in held his first exhibition in Stockholm.
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