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Basic Data
Victor Vasarely is one of the most important painters and theorists of the last century regarding to art history. His artistic career began with this training at the private drawing school Podolini-Volkmann-Academy in Budapest in 1927. In the following year, he changed to Mühely school for graphics that followed the Bauhaus-tradition. In 1930, he relocated to Paris, where he successfully worked as a commercial artist. There, he began deal with pictorial means like geometry, abstraction, rhythm, movement, and space.
- Born: 9 April 1906
- Place of birth: Pécs, Hungary
- Died on: 15 March 1997
- Nationality: French with Hungarian descent
- Studied at: Podolini-Volkmann-Adacemy Budapest, Mühely school for graphic with Bauhaus tradition
- Teachers: Sándor Bortnyk
- Similar artists: Josef Albers
- Era: Contemporary art
- Stylistic direction: Op art
Victor Vasarely Art For Sale
Victor Vasarely Lithograph Print Kat-Zag
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Victor Vasarely Serigraph Heisenberg
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Victor Vasarely Zebra No. 2 (I) Lithograph
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Victor Vasarely Zebra No. 2 (III) Print
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Victor Vasarely Print Zebra No. 2 (II)
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Victor Vasarely Zebra No. 3 (I) Lithograph
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Victor Vasarely Print Zebra No. 3 (III)
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Victor Vasarely Print Tsillag
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Victor Vasarely Print Voeroech II
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Victor Vasarely Print Centaurus
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Victor Vasarely Lithograph Konjunktion
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Victor Vasarely Print Konjunktion
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Victor Vasarely Print Oslop 3
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Victor Vasarely Print YKA I
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Victor Vasarely Lithograph YKA III
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Exhibitions
- 26.02.2023 – 01.05.2023 Think Tank: Reproductive Agents – Museu D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (MADRE), Naples.
- 12.02.2023 – 02.07.2023 Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982 – Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles.
- 20.04.2022 – 28.01.2023 No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection – Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna.
- 24.07.2021 - 21.10.2021 Das schönste Bild bei mir Zuhaus – Ulmer Museum, Ulm.
- 22.05.2021 - 01.11.2021 Sculpture en fête! – Fondation Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.
- 02.03.2021 - 21.11.2021 Calder, Soulages, Vasarely... Abstractions Plurielles (1950-1980) Collection De La Fondation Gandur Pour L'art – Musée de Pully, Pully.
- 27.02.2021 - 26.09.2021 wild/schön - Kunsthalle Emden.
- 26.10.2020 - 01.05.2021 A TRIBUTE TO VASARELY & MORE - kunstGarten Graz.
- 01.10.2020 - 31.01.2021 Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context – Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix.
- 28.08.2020 - 17.10.2020 La saison dure – Printemps de l’Art Contemporaine, Marseille.
- 01.06.2020 - 03.01.2021 EXTRA LARGE – Kunsthal Rotterdam.
- 23.11.2019 - 19.04.2020 Vertigo. Op Art und die Geschichte des Schwindels 1520-1970 - Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.
- 25.05.2019 - 26.10.2019 Vertigo. Op Art und eine Geschichte des Schwindels 1520–1970 - MUMOK Wien, Vienna.
- 27.03.2019 - 19.05.2019 Platons Erben – Die Sammlungen im Kunstmuseum Bayreuth - Kunstmuseum Bayreuth.
- 06.02.2019 - 06.05.2019 Vasarely, le partage des formes - Centre Pompidou, Paris.
- 26.09.2018 - 13.01.2019 Victor Vasarely. Im Labyrinth der Moderne - Städel Museum, Frankfurt/ Main.
- 07.06.2018 - 09.09.2018 Victor Vasarely. The birth of Op Art - Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
- 08.10.2014 - 11.01.2015 Victor Vasarely. Optical Paintings - EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo.
- October 2009 - February 2010 Victor Vasarely + 50 Jahre konstruktive Kunst in Paris - Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl.
Awards
- 1970: French Chevalier de L'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur, Paris.
- 1966: Golden Medal, Second International Congress on Empirical Aesthetics, Rimini.
- 1965: L’Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Paris.
- 1965: Golden Medal of the Société d’Encouragement á l’Art et á l’Industrie, Paris.
- 1964: Guggenheim Prize, NewYork.
- 1955: Prix de la Critique, Brussels.
- 1955: Golden Medal, Milan.
- 1955: International Prize, Venezuela.
Literature
- Victor Vasarely: 1906–1997. Das reine Sehen, Magdalena Holzhey, Cologne 2018.
- Victor Vasarely: In the Labyrinth of Modernism, Martin Engler (Publ.), Nuremberg 2018.
- Victor Vasarely. Der Traum vom Raum: Malerei, Marlene Lauter, Cologne 2017.
- Polychromie und Glück: Die Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence 1973-76, Anneke Bokern, Zurich 2008.
- Vasarely. Werke aus sechs Jahrzehnten, Manfred de la Motte, Alexander Tolnay, Stuttgart 1986.
Own Writings
- Vasarely, Victor Vasarely, 1978.
- Plasticité, Victor Vasarely, 1969.
Collections
Germany
- Frankfurt am Main - Das Städel Museum
- München - Die Pinakotheken
France
- Paris - Centre Pompidou
- Aix-en-Provence - Vasarely Fondation
England
- London - Tate Modern
Hungary
- Budapest - Vasarely Museum
- Pécs - Victor Vasarely Museum
USA
- New York - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Weblinks
- Victor Vasarely Fondation Detailed biography and work overview.
- Art in Words Biography.
