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Hungarian-Jewish abstract painter (1897–1985)

Árpád Szenes (also French: Árpád Szenès; 6 May 1897 in Budapest – 16 January 1985 in Paris) was a Hungarian-Jewishabstract painter who worked in France.^{[1][2][circular reference]}

Biography

In 1897, Szenes was born into a petty bourgeois family in Budapest.

Many artists including Arthur Bárdos, Ignotus, Lajos Hatvany were guests in the family's home. He went to the Munkácsy Mihály Street Secondary Grammar School and was taught among others by Milán Füst.

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He was passionate about drawing. He served in World War I, but he did not come to the front; he painted portraits on the graves of heroic fallen soldiers from photos. Here he was recognized by the sculptor Dezső Bokros Birman, who directed him towards modern art.

He enrolled in the free school of József Rippl-Rónai, where Béla Iványi-Grünwald and Károly Kernstok had great influence on him.

In 1919 he worked with his fe