Armand Schönberger

Armand Schönberger (1885 in Galgóc – 1974 in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter.

His life Son of Mór Schönberger (1855–1911) engraver and Jozefa Glück. He started out as a self-taught painter, at first he copied Mihály Munkácsy's paintings, then he was a student of the free-spirited evening nude drawing course at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. Later, he continued his education in Munich at the free school opposed to academism led by the Slovenian painter Anton Ažbe. After Ažbe's death, from 1905 he was a student at the official Academy in Munich, where J.C. Herterich and P. Halm were his masters. During the summer, he visited the painting school in Nagybánya. He spent almost every summer here until 1912, the young people who grouped around Béla Czóbel had a great influence on him. In 1909, he visited Paris, where he got acquainted with Paul Cézanne's view of space and Robert Delaunay's cubist-expressionist paintings, which had a decisive influence on his later art. In the same place, he continued his further education at the evening nude drawings of the Grande Chaumiere. At that time, he still made his portraits and portraits in the spirit of Nagybánya, which he exhibited in the Art Gallery in 1910. As a sign of his change of attitude,…Citește mai mult

Art Gallery, Budapest (1958) Lifetime exhibition, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (cat.) (1970) Armand Schönberger memorial exhibition, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest • István Türr Museum, Baja (1985)