'Passacaglia, the Dance' by Emory Ladanyi, 1968, New York, Budapest, Berlin, Massachusetts Museum of Art

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Signed lower right, 'Landanyi' for Emory Landanyi (Hungarian-American, 1902-1986); additionally signed, verso, dated 1968 and titled, 'Passacaglia'.

Born in Hungary, … Read more Signed lower right, 'Landanyi' for Emory Landanyi (Hungarian-American, 1902-1986); additionally signed, verso, dated 1968 and titled, 'Passacaglia'.

Born in Hungary, Emory Ladanyi first attended the University of Budapest Medical School. During his medical residency in Berlin, he was especially influenced by the works of Edvard Munch, forerunner of German Expressionism. During a second residency, in Vienna, he was also exposed to the works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Kokoschka who were influential in his further development.

In 1929, Landanyi arrived in New York and began to practice medicine which enabled him to continue painting. Outside of his professional work, he moved exclusively in the avant-garde artistic circles of New York City, becoming close friends of the composer Edgar Varese, the poet Kenneth Patchen and the writers Anais Nin and Henry Miller.

After Pearl Harbor, Landanyi volunteered for service in the US Army and was commissioned a captain in the Medical Corps. During the duration of the war, he gave up his medical practice and in 1945, he resumed both his medical practice and painting. He exhibited widely and with success, including in Budapest, Berlin, New York, Chicago and Massachusetts Museum of Art.

This painting is accompanied by a first edition of the hard-cover book titled, "Ladanyi", published by Abaris Books, Inc (1977), in which this work is illustrated on p.132.

EXHIBITIONS:
Gallerie Sturm, Berline, 1927
Barta Miklos Tarsag, Budapest, 1929
Society of Independent Artist, NYC, 1932
Park Lane Gardens, NYC, 1934
Salons of America, The Forum in Rockefeller Center, 1935
Brooklyn Museum, Oil paintings by Living Artist, 1935
Contemporary Arts Gallery, Mid-Season Retrospective, 1936
American Artist Congress, NYC 1939
International Watercolor Exhibition, Art Institute, Chicago, 1939
New York World's Fair, American Pavillion, 1939
Modern Art Studio, NYC, 1944
Museum of Art, Springfield, Mass, 1959
Ninth Annual New England Exhibition, Silvermine Guild, 1959
National Academy of Design, 1960
Silvermine Guild of Artist, Lever House, NYC 1964
Hartford Art Foundation, Hartford, Ct 1965
Niveau Gallery, NYC 1966, 1967-1977
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, The Avant Gard of Hungary in the Nineteen Thirties Group, 1980
Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, 1983
Lyle Evan Gallery, Lexington, Mass. 1984

BOOKS
Ladanyi, by Walter L. Strauss, 1977, Abaris Books, Inc.
Introduction by Walasse Ting
Collages, 1984, Matignon Gallery
Woodcuts, 1986, Kovesdy Gallery

Reference:
Vollmer Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler des 20. Jarhhunderts, Hans Vollmer, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 3, p. 152; et al. See less