Beginning in the 1950s, Judit Reigl (b. Kapuv\u00e1r, Hungary, 1923; d. Marcoussis, France, 2020) builds a singular creative oeuvre between abstraction and figuration, between Surrealism and gestural painting. After studying art in Budapest, Reigl flees Hungary in 1950; arriving in Paris, she is introduced to Andr\u00e9 Breton, who organizes her first exhibition in 1954. Under the influence of the \u00c9cole de Paris, she branches out into \u00e9criture automatique, then shifts toward free expression. Like her contemporaries Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler in New York, she lays out ever larger unprimed canvases on the floor and works them with a brush, her fingers, or other instruments. After 1966, bodily shapes emerge from her abstractions, and figures reappear in the pictures.<\/p>\n
On occasion of Reigl\u2019s centenary and the gift of three major works, the Neue Nationalgalerie mounts the artist\u2019s first solo exhibition at a museum in Germany. The book surveys the oeuvre of one of the most important protagonists of European art in the second half of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n
Judit Reigl studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1942 until 1945 and was a fellow at the Hungarian Academy in Rome in 1947\u201348. From 1950 onwards, she lived and worked in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beginning in the 1950s, Judit Reigl (b. Kapuv\u00e1r, Hungary, 1923; d. Marcoussis, France, 2020) builds a singular creative oeuvre between abstraction and figuration, between Surrealism and gestural painting. After studying art in Budapest, Reigl flees Hungary in 1950; arriving in Paris, she is introduced to Andr\u00e9 Breton, who organizes her first exhibition in 1954. Under the influence of the \u00c9cole de Paris, she branches out into \u00e9criture automatique, then shifts toward free expression. Like her contemporaries Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler in New York, she lays out ever larger unprimed canvases on the floor and works them with a brush, her fingers, or other instruments. After 1966, bodily shapes emerge from her abstractions, and figures reappear in the pictures.<\/p>\n
On occasion of Reigl\u2019s centenary and the gift of three major works, the Neue Nationalgalerie mounts the artist\u2019s first solo exhibition at a museum in Germany. The book surveys the oeuvre of one of the most important protagonists of European art in the second half of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n
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