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1916-2001 | Hungarian-French
György Simonka; G. Simonka
Hungarian-born Painter of the École de Paris
Georges Simonka was born in Budapest in 1916 and studied at the city’s school of applied arts. He held his first exhibition in Budapest in 1943 and after the war settled in Paris, where he joined the large colony of Hungarian painters of the École de Paris and showed regularly at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon Comparaisons.
He painted still lifes, figures and townscapes in a firm, constructed manner, building his pictures from planes of thick, scumbled colour laid on with the knife and the brush, with a dark line holding the forms together.
His travels took him to Spain and the Mediterranean, whose villages, churches and carts he painted under heavy skies, and in later years he also worked in mixed media and collage. A member of several French artists’ associations and listed in the Bénézit dictionary, he exhibited across Europe; the Musée Jean Moulin in Paris holds his portrait of General Leclerc, and his work is recorded in public collections in France and Austria. He died in Paris in 2001.
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