biography - Miklós Németh
He was born in Budapest, 02.18. 1934
Artistic studies:
Márffy Ödön Academy 1953-1956
Honvéd Fine Art Circle ( master: József Szalatnyai)
Csepel Fine Art Circle (masters: István Ilosvai Varga, Menyhért Tóth)
Tokaj Artist Estate 1957-1977Private exhibitions:
1981 Art Gallery, Budapest
1981. Kisduna Gallery, Budapest
1985. Fészek Club, Budapest
1995. Csepel Gallery, Budapest
1996. Gallery 22., Budapest
1996. SunTV Gallery, Budapest
1996. Kunhegyes Cultural House
1997. Horváth and Lukács Gallery, Nagycenk
2000. Ernst Museum, BudapestMiklós Németh, painter artist was born is 1934 and he was painting passionately in all his life. This website presents some of his paintings.
Opinons on Miklós Németh's paintings
„Miklós Németh is principally colorist, painter of lively colors, red, blue and green: his graphical rough-and readiness gains its reason in the celebration of colors. Forms of trees, people and buildings alloy into union in the harmony of his tones.”
Dr. Miklós Losonci- Art historian
„He was always interested in the whole surface of the paper. The magic of composition, the rythym and the colors tied down his attention. So were born the significant works of Miklós Németh with strength of visions, which - and it's not exaggregation - belong to the front line of Hungarian art.”
Pál Deim - Kossuth and Munkácsi prize painter artist
Pál Deim: The anatomy of heart and soul - About Miklós Németh, painter artist
Cezanne said: we should destroy all the schools, all of them! But we should add, that judging schools too, cause they are always late, they always step lately. Think about Csontváry, Menyhért Tóth and György Román! On the 70 years old Menyhért Tóth's big introduction in the Art Gallery the critics and also a part of the artists were wandering with disturbed faces. Is it really good?-they were asking. One critic said with regret: poor Menyhért Tóth have to exhibit in the neighbourhood of Klee? Poor Klee, I was thinking, he was a little bit shrunk next to Menyhért Tóth! Every new artist claim for a new approach. This refers to Miklós Németh too. When our domestic art is titled to be provincial, I think of that Andy Warhol and the American avantgarde have become really the best, when they got separated from Europe and they undertook their provincial life and also its expressions. Thanks to them the provincial American Art was born. They have become world-famous. In the same time the provincial Menyhért Tóth, -who also created significant art in Miske as Andy Warhol in New York-hasn't become world-famous. And Miske is not as famous as New York. So much for our defeatism and for our critics' prejudice. In the 60-ies started the social-reality disrupting avantgarde. In line with it, far from the artistic martial noise Miklós Németh has been already working. Apart from every kind of avantgarde, with his own rules, with strong provincial badinage, according to the anatomy of the soul, he started with remarkable talent on the dionysian road. My first encounter with him was nearly half a century ago, we were introduced by József Szalatnyai painter artist, artistic circle leader. Then he could have been 20, and I was 22. Uncle Szepi (it was our teacher's nick name) said: he is a very talented kid, he already has a style. In those times having our own rules wasn't fashionable. Already his first paintings were made in his characteristic composing way and color-world, but the intensity of putting up the paint referred to nowadays too. He was born to be a wonderful colorist, I don't remember any time, when at judging his paintings were left out, because of bad coloring. I think he has absolute - colorhearing - (color-sense). Instead of anatomical correctness, he pays attention to the anatomy of heart and soul, but he doesn't have to pay attention, because it can be found in him, like the smell in the flower. His works show lack of speculations, they are strong feeling transmitters, they are timeless. His figures are fallible, fragile, they are pervaded by the love of life, the paintings of the heart. This is not an avantgarde program. According to a film director pathos and energy are also characteristics of his paintings. He likes to have his sons in front of his paintings: this is life, this could be the life. There is no depression, pressuring surrealism, misshappen demons, Németh is not hunted by monsters, unlike his chosen idol, Goya. ( Already in his youth he begun to grow his side beard to become similar to him. Kamil G. Turay: the side beard is soul- symbol) How does Miklós Németh paint? Once I invited him into my studio-actually into my yard-to paint ( its dangerous to invite Miklós into our studio or into our flat, because everything becomes smudgy around him). I put a big wood-fibre plate into my yard, because I was curious, what did he do with big surfaces. For preparation he dissolved several colors in five-six canned-glass, so in the process he didn't have to fiddle about them. We should know, that Miklós sits down and he doesn't stand up, until he finishes his painting, like Rippl-Rónai and Vaszary. So he started working. He began painting without linedrawing. He took a bottle, and didn't put it down, until it became empty. The same happened with the second bottle, he used all the paint from it! I don't have to add, that it went on, till the last bottle emptied too and than he announced: the picture is ready! And what if, there would have been two more bottles?! It is still a mistery, that why was the painting ready in that particular time. By the way, the painting was also interesting. On the 240x120 wood-fibre plate he painted a crowd, which was moving up and down on the moving starcase of the underground. They were squirming, like the semen before insemination. In the center there was a buxom-charmed, frothy-dressed woman, in a very short dress. The dress exposed everything:the center and door of life. We could see that a such simple topic, with the help of the libido became a vision, nearly a misteryplay. And this was presented with such a naturalness and eminence, that there was no mark of artificiality in it. His frequent topic is the couple, holding on to each other. This could be the motto of his life-work. It's a symbol, which he completes with cosmic elements, presenting the Sun and the Moon. With this he raises the average experience of togetherness into universal highness, giving us the feeling, that we depend on higher forces. This everyday transcendency makes special the art of Miklós Németh. His paintings tell tales about things, which are missing from nowadays art. He presents us the natural desire-condition of life. His provinces are Pasarét, where he was born and where he spent his youth, and Csepel, where he went to artistical circles for 25 years, and where Menyhért Tóth and István Ilosvai Varga cleared his path. Here he met Ilonka, who has become his painter-partner, his partner, his wife, and the mother of his children. A touching, nice picture recalls his wife into our memory, on which as a young girl, in the creating cirle, in a characteristic bearing she works in front of the easel. Both of them started from here, their holding on to each other is the symbol of helping each other too.
