1900-1945
Sándor Bortnyik 'Self Portrait'
Sándor Bortnyik 'Self Portrait'
£4,750.00
Sándor Bortnyik Hungarian, 1893-1976
Self Portrait, 1917
£4,750
Charcoal on paper
Signed and dated (lower right)
33 × 24 cm (66 × 56 cm framed)
Bortnyik was a painter and graphic designer, whose work was greatly influenced by Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism. In 1922 he moved to Weimar, Germany and became connected to the Bauhaus. When he moved back to Hungary he founded an art school in Budapest, where he followed Bauhaus principles. He was also the director of Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (1949–1956).