Jolan Gross-Bettelheim

Mjesto: Nitra

Rođen: 1900

Smrt: 1972

Biografija:

Jolán Gross-Bettelheim (January 28, 1900–July 29, 1972) was a Hungarian artist who lived and worked in the United States from 1925 to 1956, before returning to Hungary. She studied painting at the Budapest School of Fine Art in 1919, followed by studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna and the Akademie der Bildenden Künst in Berlin. Gross-Bettelheim then studied in Paris at the Académie de Grande Chaumière between 1922-24. She married a Hungarian-born radiologist, Frigyes Bettelheim, and settled in Cleveland by 1925. Her studies in Ohio commenced at the Cleveland School of Art with modernist painter Henry Keller. She was an active painter and printmaker, but also created ceramic objects. She contributed to leftist publications such as New Masses and the Daily Worker. She and her husband relocated to New York City in 1938. The city had a profound effect on her, and resulted in a number of works utilizing an array of mediums, including pastel painting, photography, lithography and etching. Her work was exhibited at MoMA in 1936. She returned to Hungary after 1956, and died in Budapest in 1972. Her works mostly explore the human experience in modern urbanized society, living in an industrialized modern metropolis and revealing the human aspect. Gross-Bettelheim's art depicts both the familiar and foreign feeling of this world. She was an outstanding artist.