Aurel Bernath Painter

The beginning of his career is related to Nagybánya, where János Thorma and István Réti were his masters. From 1921 to 1926 he lived in Berlin between 1923 and 1926 in Berlin. His abstinence was related to avant-garde art with related kinship. In Vienna, he created his famous "Graphik" folder, which had already begun in Hungary in 1920. In his inspiration he was probably involved with one of his artistfriends, the expressionist János Schadl. He was in contact with Der Sturm in Berlin, exhibiting in his gallery in 1922 and 1924. In the years of Vienna and Berlin, he developed a highly abstract style, characterized by romantic expressionism, cubic space formation, and the simplistic form of primitive art. After its re-establishment, the deep-rooted Nagybánya traditions re-surfaced in painting, adapting again to the spectacle as a primary artistic starting point. In his paintings with a meditative and vaguely lyrical poetry, poetic-inspired landscapes, captivating portraits were born, unconvincingly justifying the love of nature, the deepening of humanity and the ability to streamline postmodernism based on inner experience. In the 1950s he painted many-sided paintings. His teaching work, which he has been doing at the College of Fine Arts for almost four decades, was as significant as his literary work, his autobiographical trilogy of fiction.