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Emma Heinzelmann
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art

c.1950-1970's

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Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era. This framed painting depicts figures, a rooster and angels in flying above. Artist signature on farm gate. Housed in chrome mid century frame. Framed: 19.5 X 25.5 image is 15 X 21. Emma Heinzelmann ( Nyírbátor , March 14 , 1930 - ) Munkácsy Prize-winning Hungarian graphic designer and illustrator. Heinzelmann is a Hungarian children's book illustrator and graphic poster artist, who started her career during the 1950’s. She has a very unique drawing style that resembles children’s book illustrations. Working in psychedelic pop colors of the era. She Initially she studied to be a costume designer but she soon turned to graphic design. She graduated in 1950 from the clothing design department at the Junior High School in Török Pál Street which operated under the name Szépmíves Lyceum from 1946 to 1950. His master was György Farkas, a ceramicist, painter and sculptor. She creates her compositions using mainly watercolor and gouache paint. She often worked on illustrations for children’s books, since her style fits their themes. Her posters show the same playful Hungarian Folk Art style. She has produced artwork in almost all areas of applied graphics. posters, commemorative cards, designed album covers, postcards, advertising graphics, slide films, animation and cartoons. Her drawings were published in Dörmögő Dömötör and Kisdobos among others as well as in children's magazines. An entire generation of children grew up with her book illustrations, reading the fairy tales of Wilhelm Hauff or Hans Christian Andersen. Her story books and drawings are known well beyond our borders. She illustrated nearly 80 storybooks. She is a contemporary of Maurice Sendak and William Steig. Her work is of the same genre as the iconic Polish Cyrk poster artists. In her original fine art graphics grotesque and bitter elements often prevail, her figures are playfully ironic. Her drawings are made in a variety of ways, from pencil drawings to watercolor painting to collage techniques, from decorative spot effects to lace-like line drawings. She is no stranger to a kind of Art Nouveau influence, but it is always individual. It was never beautiful, but over the years its color scheme changed, thus confirming the lines of József Somogyi quoted earlier. She had several individual exhibitions, and for more than 10 years as a member of the Papp-Gábor group, her works could be seen in Dorottya Street. In 2009 , the book of art historian András Székely was published by Holnap Könyvkiadó under the title Emma Heinzelmann: fairy tales in the drawing. Awards and recognitions Lot Prize (International Poster Biennale, Warsaw) (1972) Ministry of Culture Award (1977, 1979) Brno Graphic Biennale (Bronze Award) (1980) Worker's Award (1984) Children's Book of the Year Award (1984) IBBY Andersen Diploma (1988) Hamburg Lifetime Achievement Award (1990) Albert Star Award (1992) Noémi Ferenczy Award (2005) Munkácsy Award (1984) Solo Exhibitions: Thought Bookstore, Budapest (1965) Cultural Center, Nyíregyháza (1974) Little Gallery, Komárom (1982) Art Gallery, Budapest. (1990) Vác (2010) Selected group exhibitions: International Children's Book Fair and Exhibition, Bologna (1971-1975) International Graphic Biennale, Brno (1966-1985) BIB (Children's book illustration biennial), Bratislava (1970-1985) XXXVI. Venice Biennale, Venice (1972) ARC. International Poster Biennale, Warsaw (1972) International Poster Triennale (B) (1972-1974) Weekdays, graphic exhibition, (1975) Calligraphy and typography, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest (1977) "Falrahányt pea", graphic exhibition, Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest.(1978) International Poster Triennale (B) (1978) National Poster Exhibitions, Art Gallery, Budapest (1978)(1980) International Poster Exhibition (IR) (1979) Slide films: Fairy tales with Emma Heinzelmann's drawings: Under the Shore (1981) Goose Party (1981) Take a Little Trumpet (1982) The Bremen Town Musicians (1985) Bunny Rabbit (1985) Sanyi the elf and Huhú the wizard (1985) Fool Ivanuska (1986) Christmas Finder (1986) The Devil's Three Golden Hairs (1986) No More Princes (1987) The Firearm (1988) As a graphic designer, Emma Heinzelmann participated in the following animated films: Tales of Crow Hill Hungarian cartoon series, (1978) Hungarian cartoon series "Varjúdombi Gaybrözók ", (1988) Her most important book illustrations The Walking Shoes (1959) World's most beautiful folk tales 1-2. (1962) Károly Medgyesi: Thrush Nursery (1962) Mikes Lajos.: Sanyi's Elf Book (1963) M. Aymé: My name is not worth it (1964) Stefánia Mándy: Book of Twins (1964) Ilona Bartócz: Barbara Street (1966) Grimm: Thrush Beak (1966) Wilhelm Hauff: Hauff's Most Beautiful Tales (1966) Green Leaf (1967) László Hárs: Grandpa Falling from the Sky (1967) Vera Ferra-Mikura: Twelve: not a dozen! (1968) My First Storybook (1969) My Second Storybook (1969) István Csukás: Kandúr Mirr-Murr (1969) Ferenc Móra: The Coachman (1970) László Hárs: Jutka and the Barter Fairy (1971) István Csukás: Finch circus, world number! (1971) Wind Devil (1971) Fairies, Dwarfs, Dwarves (1973) István Csukás: Tales of the Winter Cricket (1974) László Hárs: Full story (1974) László Arany: Pancimanci (1974) HC Andersen: Andersen's Most Beautiful Tales (1975) Ede Tarbay: Tales of Crow Hill (1975) Tibor Gyurkovics: Poem for Santa (1975) In the Little Mist (1976) István Kormos: The Waiter's Tailcoat Street Cats (1976) János Csatlós: The Castle Hanging on a Golden Chain (1977) Piss Believes (1982) Ede Tarbay: Kunkori and the Kandúr Wizard (1984) Attila Béres: Christmas Finder (1984) Sándor Kányádi Worldly Mouse (1985) Gyula Illyés: Ilók and Mihók (1986) Sándor Kányádi: Brave Taken on a Flower (2001) Kálmán Gyöngy: Data and signature directory of Hungarian cartoonists 1848-2007. Caricaturists, animation puppeteers and cartoonists, illustrators, portrait painters. Budapest, Ábra Kkt., 2008. Her data is in the catalog of the Petőfi Literary Museum Réva's New Lexicon. Main editor. Colleague István Tarsoly. Szekszárd, Babits, 1996-. Humor encyclopedia. Ed. Miklós Kaposy. Bp., Tarsoly Publishing House, 2001. Her style is a unique conglomerate of tradition, history, legends, heroes, old customs and folklore. It is a self-standing style, recognizable, cheerful, whimsical and a happy creation. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art in Zagreb Croatian Naive Art Museum in Hlebine Musée international d'Art naïf Anatole Jakovsky in Nice Musée d'Art Naïf - Max Fourny in Paris International Museum of Naive Art in Vicq (near Versailles) Museum of Naive Art in Beraut (near Toulouse) Museum Charlotte Zander in Bönnigheim Gesellschaft für Naive Kunst in Hannover Museum of Hungarian Naive Artists in Kecskemét Gallery of International Naïve Art (GINA) in Tel Aviv Naive Art Museum in Moscow Collection of naïve and outsider art of Dr. X. Bogucharskaia and A.Turchin Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught & Outsider Art American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD
  • Creator:
    Emma Heinzelmann (1930, Hungarian)
  • Creation Year:
    c.1950-1970's
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)Width: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Good. Minor wear commensurate with age. please see photos.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38211083932
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