Medgyessy, Ferenc
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Biography
Ferenc Medgyessy sculptor was born in 1881 in Debrecen. From 1899 till 1905 he studied at the Medicine University of Budapest. In 1905 he admitted to the Julian Academy, and he was student of two years there. At the Grand Chaumière free school he educated himself on, than in the Academy des Beaux-Arts, where J. P. Laurens and J. C. Chaplainv were his teachers.
In 1912 he won the Szaczelláry-award and the Barta Károly-type nude-prize. In 1931 he got the Szinyei-prizes; in 1934 he was awarded by the Greguss-prize. On the Brussels World's fair in 1935 he won gold medal and in 1937 he got the Grand Prix as well. From 1948 he was a Kossuth laureate artist.
He went to study at Paris and Florence. He was a resident of the Artist Colony of "Százados street". In 1919 he was teacher of the Proletarian Art Training Workshops. From 1910 he was the member of the Artists' House in Budapest for four years; in 1924 he also became the member of the Artists' House in Debrecen. He was founding member a New Society of Artists, and the Ady Society in Debrecen.
| Year | Biography |
|---|---|
| 1881 | He was born in Debrecen |
| 1899-1905 | He studied at the Medicine University of Budapest |
| 1905-1907 | He trained himself in Paris at the Julian Academy, as a pupil of Colarossi, and |
| in the Grand Chaumière free school and also in Academy des Beaux-Arts | |
| 1909-1910 | He was on study trip in Paris and Florence |
| From 1911 | until his death he was a resident of the Artist Colony of "Százados street" |
| 1915-1917 | army surgeon on the Galician front, he also produced military gravestones |
| 1919 | teacher of the proletarian Art training workshops |
| From 1913 | He was member of the Hódmezővásárhely Artists Majolica and Clay Industry Colony |
| 1910-1914 | member of the Artists' House of Budapest |
| 1924-1927 | member of the Artists' House of Debrecen |
| founding member a New Society of Artists, and the Ady Society in Debrecen | |
| His teachers: Laurens, J. P., Chaplain, J. C.. | |
| Awards | |
| 1957 | Kossuth-award |
| 1955 | outstanding artist |
| 1954 | Tornyai-prize, Hódmezővásárhely |
| 1948 | Kossuth-award |
| 1944 | MTA arts prize |
| 1937 | Grand Prix on the World Exhibition in Paris |
| 1935 | Brussels World's Fair Gold Medal |
| 1934 | Greguss-award |
| 1931 | Szinyei-prizes |
| 1912 | Barta Károly-type nude-prize |
| Artists' House Szaczelláry-award | |
| Single exhibitions | |
| 1982-1995 | retrospective exhibition and from 1998 memorial museum, Debrecen |
| 1981 | Inheritance centenarian exhibition, Déri Museum, Debrecen |
| Memorial exhibition, Pataky Gallery, Budapest | |
| 1968 | Study exhibition, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest |
| 1959-1976 | protected National value studio - "Százados" street, Budapest |
| 1957 | Déri Museum, Debrecen (permanent exhibitions until 1968) |
| Tornyai János Museum, Hódmezővásárhely | |
| 1956 | Műcsarnok, Budapest |
| 1932 | Tamás Gallery, Budapest (with Tibor Boromisza, Csaba Perlrott) |
| 1928 | Tamás Gallery, Budapest (with József Egry) |
| 1922 | Helikon Gallery, Budapest (with Tibor Boromisza) |
| 1913 | Academy of Commerce (with Béla Kádár, Attila Sassy), Debrecen |
| Selected group exhibitions | |
| 1958 | XXIX. Venice Biennale, Venice |
| 1954-1957 | on the Autumn Exhibition of Vásárhely |
| 1947 | Ady Society jubilee exhibition, Déri Museum, Debrecen |
| from 1950 | on the Hungarian Artists and Applied Artists Association budapest and foreign exhibitions, Budapest |
| From 1945 | the Artists Free Association |
| Works in public collections | |
| Déri Museum, Debrecen | |
| Capital Gallery, Budapest | |
| Ottó Herman Museum, Miskolc | |
| Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs | |
| Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest | |
| Reformed College, Debrecen | |
| József Rippl-Rónai Museum, Kaposvár | |
| István Türr Museum, Baja | |
| János Xantus Museum, Győr. | |
| Public works | |
| Béla Lengyel tomb (haraszti stone, 1917, Farkasréti cemetery) | |
| Mrs. Zsigmond Móricz tomb (haraszti stone, 1926, Kerepesi street' cemetery) | |
| Arts, Science, Archaeology, Ethnography (bronze sculptures, 1930, Debrecen, Déri square) | |
| Debrecen Students heroic monument (bronze relief, 1933, Debrecen, Reformed College wall) | |
| Man with fruit basket (kolozsvár sandstone relieves, 1933, Debrecen) | |
| Borosnya-tomb (haraszti stone, 1935, Farkasréti cemetary) | |
| Heroic monuments, 1935, Baja | |
| Jelky András (bronze, 1936, Baja) | |
| Ferenc Borvendég tomb (haraszti stone, 1937, Kerepesi street cemetary) | |
| Turkish-Hungarian battle (haraszti stone Memorial Fountain, 1938, Székesfehérvár) | |
| Ézsaiás Budai, József Lugossy, István Hatvani, Ferenc Balogh (bronze portrait relieves, 1938, Debrecen, Reformed College) | |
| Equestrian statue of St. Stephen (bronze, 1940, Győr, Castle garden) | |
| Harvest travel (haraszti stone relief, 1940, Banking Center, Szabadság square 5-6.) | |
| Mrs. Medveczky tomb (haraszti stone, 1941, Farkasréti cemetary) | |
| Saint Gellért-well (stone relief, 1942, Gellért hill) | |
| Mrs. Károly Lyka tombe (haraszti stone, 1943, Kerepesi street' cemetary) | |
| Hair curlers (Debrecen Venus) (bronze, 1946, Budapest, Gellért hill) | |
| Debrecen Venus (bronze, 1946, Debrecen, Déri square) | |
| Sándor Petőfi (bronze, 1948, Debrecen) | |
| Mrs. Béla Radnai tomb (ruskicai marble, 1949 v. 1959, Budapest, Farkasréti' cemetary) | |
| Bridge Construction (sóskút stone relief, 1950, Budapest, Váci street 67.) | |
| Csokonai-pantheon (bronze, 1953) | |
| Dancing woman (bronze, 1954, Budapest) | |
| Debrecen Venus (bronze, 1954, Gellért hill) | |
| 1981, Debrecen | |
| Breast-feeding mothers (haraszti stone, 1954, Budapest, Gellért hill) | |
| Sunbathing woman (haraszti stone, 1955, Budapest) | |
| 1982, Debrecen | |
| Sitting girl (Resting) (ruskicai marble, 1956, Debrecen, Children's clinic) | |
| Móricz-memorial (haraszti stone, 1957, Debrecen) | |
| Ottó Herman (haraszti stone, 1957, Miskolc) | |
| Fountain with bears (haraszti stone, 1956, Budapest) | |
| 1986, Debrecen | |
| János Arany (bronze bust, 1957, Debrecen). |
