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Gadányi, Jeno
(b Budapest, 28 March 1896; d Budapest, 29 Feb 1960). Hungarian painter. He graduated from the College of Fine Arts, Budapest, in 1923. The influence of his teacher, János Vaszary (1867–1939), is clearly visible in such early works as Blue-eyed Girl (1927; Budapest, N.G.). He was also attracted to the avant-garde, mainly under the influence of Károly Kernstok. In 1927 he travelled to Paris and studied the work of Picasso and Matisse, and Surrealist and abstract painters. His early period (late 1920s to mid-1930s) is characterized by subjective works combining Constructivist, Cubist and Surrealist techniques (e.g. Horses, 1932; Budapest, N.G.). From the mid-1930s depictions of natural objects were filtered through memory. Fantastic Landscape (1948; Budapest, N.G.), a combination of the real and unreal, sums up his attempts to use Constructivism and Expressionism.
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