DOMJÁN GALÉRIA, Budapest
Kultúrális Központ
Web: www.domjanart.hu - Email: info@domjanart.hu – Tel: 36-30-982-4546
József Domján was one of the most important color woodcut artists in the Twentieth Century. He was born in
Hungary in 1907 and attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest where he was trained in painting. The Royal Academy, now called the Hungarian University of Fine Arts is organizing a Symposium and major retrospective exhibition about the life and work of this world renowned artist.
Domján became an internationally recognized artist while living in Hungary during his early years. He developed a special and unique style in the color woodcut medium.While spending six months exhibiting and lecturing
in China, Domján was awarded the title “Master of the Color Woodcut,” an honor given once a century. The Hungarian government recognized his talent by decorating him with the Munkácsy and Kossuth prizes, the most coveted recognitions for Hungarian artists. After the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 he emigrated to the West and eventually went to the United States with his family and settled in New York. Domján became a celebrated artist in the West with over 500 hundred exhibitions on four continents. His color woodcut prints are in many major Museums in America, Japan, and Europe. In Hungary a new generation is "rediscovering" Domján's artwork. Today a Contemporary Art House, and the rededication of the Domján collection in the Sárospataki Képtár are important steps to reacquaint Hungarian art lovers and collectors with this extraordinary “Master of the Color Woodcut”.
