GIMES, LAJOS (1886-1945)

"Spring Pastoral" (c.1920)
oil on board
50 x 60cm
signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
Gímeš was a respected Hungarian painter. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Budapest and then continued his studies in Berlin, Brussels and Paris. He exhibited for the first time at the National Salon. In 1906, he took part in the International Exhibition in Milan with four paintings. In 1909 he settled in Miskolc, where he had seven collective exhibitions until 1927. His first exhibition of landscapes took place at the Kunsthalle in 1911. He painted naturalistic pictures tending towards Impressionism. He also produced watercolors with ethnographic motifs. In 1933 he spent five months in the Netherlands, where he had three exhibitions in The Hague, Groningen and ‘s-Hertogenboschh. He was a member of the Hungarian National Israelite Cultural Association and took part in the exhibitions of the OMIKE art campaign between 1939 and 1944. He was murdered in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in February, 1945.