Oil painting Winter landscape in the village Marton Adalbert Aleksandrovich

№Vern 1199


*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Winter landscape in the village"
* ARTISTS: Marton Adalbert Aleksandrovich
* SIZE: 100x120 cm/'39.37x47.24 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product
* This item was auctioned in Kiev auction

About the artist: Ukrainian, Hungarian painter. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Master of Transcarpathian landscape and still life. Bail Alex Lux, who everyone knew as Adalbert Marton, was born on March 1, 1913 in the United States of America in the city of Cllerton, where his parents went in 1911 in search of a piece of bread, but did not find it, and there, after the birth of their son, they returned in 1914 to their homeland, to Roznava (Czechoslovakia). There, in 1925, the guy graduated from elementary school. And in 1929 - a gymnasium. Subsequently, his father died, and the young man remained an orphan. He lost his mother when he was only 12 ... Having lost his parents early, he ends up with the Martons, whose surname he took in the future. After the death of his father, Alexander Kardosh became the guardian of the guy, in whose store Adalbert began to work. In his free time, he studied the basics of art from the famous artist in Roznavi, Tikhin Koloman. In 1932 he entered the art and industrial school in the city of Brno, where he studied until 1934. Subsequently, on the advice of the teachers of the school, he successfully passed the entrance exams to the art-industrial school in the city of Yablontsi, which he graduated with honors in 1936. After that he was drafted into the Czechoslovak Army, where he served as a private until December 1938. While still a soldier in 1937 in the city of Ichini, together with local artists he took part in the exhibition. Having been demobilized from the army, Marton worked for a year in his native Roznavi, and already in December 1939 he moved to Uzhgorod for permanent residence. In 1941, the artist had his first solo reporting exhibition, which brought him wide recognition and had good reviews and wide publicity. After the liberation of Transcarpathia by the Soviet Army and its inclusion in the Ukrainian SSR A. Marton in 1946 became an artist of the Promfoto artel in Uzhgorod, in 1948 he got a job in art production workshops, where he worked for several decades. Since 1946 he regularly participated in all regional art exhibitions. He participated in the exhibition dedicated to the 10th reunion of Transcarpathian Ukraine with Soviet Ukraine, which was exhibited in Kiev, Moscow, Tallinn and other cities of the Soviet Union, the republican exhibition in Kiev in 1957 and the art exhibition dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Komsomol, which took place in 1959 of the year . Since October 1960, Adalbert Marton is a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Recommendations for entry were given to him by the luminaries of the regional school of painting Joseph Bokshay, Andrey Kotska and Gabriel Gluck. Since 1957 he participated in regional, republican, all-union and international exhibitions. Moved to Hungary (1972). By the decision of the XI Plenum of the Board of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR of January 14, 1973, Adalbert Marton was expelled from the Union of Artists of the USSR in connection with his departure to Hungary for permanent residence. Major works: “Winter in the Mountains” (1957); "At the forest station" (1958); "In summer" ; The Collective Farm Series (1961); Winter ”(1963) and others. The artist's works are in museums, galleries and private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, the USA, Canada and Japan.
In 2003, the Hungarian government awarded the artist the Golden Cross for his services to the Republic of Hungary. Adalbert Marton died on March 22, 2007.