Hugó Scheiber

About the artist

Hugó Scheiber was a Jewish-Hungarian modernist painter, born in Budapest on 29 September 1873 and died there on 7 March 1950 (Wikipedia). He was taken to Vienna at the age of eight, where his father worked as a sign painter for the Prater Theater, and returned to Budapest at fifteen, working by day and attending evening classes at the School of Design, where Henrik Papp was one of his teachers (Wikipedia).

His early work was post-Impressionist, but from 1910 he turned towards German Expressionism and Futurism (Wikipedia). In 1915 he met Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who invited him to join the Futurist movement, and in 1919 he showed with Béla Kádár at the Hevesy Salon in Vienna (Wikipedia). Herwarth Walden, founder of Der Sturm, took up his work, and Scheiber moved to Berlin in 1922; he was included in the Société Anonyme exhibition organised by Katherine Dreier in New York in 1926 and returned to Hungary in 1934 (Wikipedia).

His preferred subjects were cabaret and street scenes, jazz musicians, flappers and self-portraits, usually with a cigar, and he worked mainly in gouache and oil (Wikipedia). His paintings are in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest and the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs, and the Hungarian National Museum held a commemorative exhibition of his work in 1964 (Wikipedia). The Joseph Clark Collection holds an untitled oil on panel by him (Joseph Clark Collection).

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Hugo Scheiber
2. Joseph Clark Collection