Oszkár Papp (1925-2011): hug, 29 x 21 cm mixed media, paper 1984

Oszkár Papp (1925-2011): hug. Paper, mixed media, indicated lower right. Graphic size: 29 x 21 cm, in frame, 33.5 x 24.5 cm. The graphics can be seen in the pictures in good condition, in a modern frame.

Oszkár Papp was born in Budapest in 1925. Between 1945 and 1950 he attended the College of Fine Arts, his teachers were among others Aurél Bernáth and István Szőnyi. His first drawing was published in the March 1947 issue of old reality. His first artistic writings were published in the same magazine. As a founding member of a college of fine arts, he was secretary and then director of the István Huber folk college in Dési, which opened in the spring of 1947.

In 1950, during the Rákos era, he was excluded from everywhere, for two and a half decades he lived by restoring murals and mosaics for the monument protection office.

Around 1960, he develops his abstract organic painting language, characterized by crystal and plant formations, and abstractions and free combinations of the human figure.

As an avant-garde artist, he was banned from presenting himself for a long time, his first exhibition was in 1965 at the college in Bercsény. After 1965, he presented his works in several individual and group exhibitions. Several of his works are kept in public collections, including the Hungarian National Gallery, the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs, the Szent István King Museum in Székesfehérvár, the Kecskemét Picture Gallery and the Petőfi Literary Museum in Budapest.