Endre Nemes (1909-1985) Painter; recipient of the Swedish State Prize
Endre Nemes was born in Pecsvarad, Hungary and spent his childhood and youth in Slovakia - in Levoča, Spišská Nová Ves and Liptovský Mikuláš. From 1928 to 1930 he worked as a journalist and cartoonist in Prague, where he subsequently studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (1930-1934). In 1938 he fled to Norway to escape fascism, and from 1940 lived in Sweden, where he taught for a number of years at the school of art in Goteborg. From 1955 he worked as a freelance artist in Stockholm. His oeuvre belongs to that offshoot of Surrealism informed by the struggle against fascism. In Sweden he created a number of monumental works in enamel. His celebrated work "Baroque Chair" (1941) is a continuation of his Prague paintings from the 1930s, and in it the artist endeavours to address the international situation during the war from the viewpoint of Swedish neutrality. "Baroque Chair" was Endre Nemes's first major work in Sweden.