ARTIST: Bela Kontuly (Hungarian, 1904 - 1983)
NAME: Feeding the Bird
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Very good. Restretched. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 30 x 24 inches / 75 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: 31 x 25 inches / 78 x 63 cm
SIGNATURE: Lower left
PROVENANCE: Arnot Gallery (has gallery stamp on verso)
SIMILAR ARTISTS: Jeno Medveczky, Frigyes Frank, Jozsef Egry, Bela Czobel, Endre Balint, Janos Kmetty, Laszlo Mednyanszky, Armand Schonberger, Hugo Scheiber, Vilmos Perlrott Csaba, Jozsef Rippl-Ronai, David Jandi, Aurel Bernath, Pal C Molnar
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 116233
WARRANTY: 7 days returns accepted if item doesn't match description

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Bela Kontuly (Hungary, 1904 - 1983)
Hungarian artist and art professor.
Bela Kontuly studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts and the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts. At this early age, during his college years, his paintings were exhibited in Kosice in the Eastern Slovakia Museum. From 1928 to 1930 he attended the Hungarian Academy in Rome with his wife Fuchs Hajnalka. In 1932 he had an exhibition in the Ernst Museum. In 1934 he joined the Munkacsy Guild Art Association.
Kontuly attended the University of Szeged. He painted Frescoes in the chapel Hermina ut in Budapest, the Herminamezoi Holy Spirit Church, and the Catholic Church in Komarom. In 1939 he painted Frescoes in St. Anne’s Church together with Paul Molnar.
In 1940 he was in charge of the Metropolitan of the resurrection of Jairus’ daughter. From 1939 to 1947 Kontuly taught at the Art School. In 1945 he did restoration of Frescoes for churches and did Frescoes by commission. In 1974 he had a personal exhibition in Tokyo, Japan; his last exhibition before he died in 1983.