BÉNI (BENJAMIN) FERENCZY* (Szentendre 1890 - 1967 Budapest) Bundle of two etchings Deer, 1931 etching/paper 28 x 25 cm signed Benjamin Ferenczy, dated 1931 Csardas etching/paper 43,2 x 34 cm signed Ferenczy inscribed Orig. wheel. Hand coloured ESTIMATE °€ 40 - € 60 STARTING PRICE € 40 Béni Ferenczy was the second son of the painter Károly Ferenczy and the painter Olga Fialka, younger brother of the painter Valér Ferenczy and twin brother of the artist Noémi Ferenczy. He grew up in the Nagybánya artists' colony and was trained in painting by István Réti and Béla Iványi-Grünwald. In 1908 he visited the sculptors Friedrich Beer and Giuseppe Cassioli in Florence, studied in Munich with Balthasar Schmitt in 1910 and in Paris in 1912/13 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Antoine Bourdelle, where he came under the influence of Alexander Archipenko's Cubism. His work was influenced by Art Nouveau, Cubism, Expressionism and, from the late 1920s, Neoclassicism. Before 1914 he was involved in the Budapest Sunday circle and was active as a leading artist during the Hungarian Soviet Republic alongside the sculptor Ferenc Medgyessy and the painter Bertalan Pór. After the Soviet Republic was suppressed, he fled to Vienna and joined the Hagenbund, later moved to Moscow and had to flee to Vienna again. After the Second World War, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1945 to 1950, where he died in 1967. Further artists and styles: Sculpture, Statue, Oil painting, Nature, Etching, Realism, New Objectivity PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.