Koloman Tichý - Zátišie s ovocím

Koloman Tichý - Still life with fruit

oil on canvas, restored, signed upper left, size 54 x 46 cm, really beautiful gallery work

Koloman Tichý was born in 1888 in Rožňav, died in 1968 in Budapest. In 1911 he graduated from the VŠVU in Bratislava, in 1906 he graduated from the private school of S. Hollósy in Munich. In the years 1923-1927, he worked as a correspondent for the Prague newspaper Prági magyar Hírlap and the Bratislava newspaper Magyar Nélap. He published science fiction novels and published a monograph on the history of Plešivec (1936). 1910-1945 he was a member of the KÉVE association.

In his drawings and graphics, the influence of art nouveau line, japoneria, but also social accents is evident. Together with his brother Júlio, he belongs to the representatives of Symbolism. The core of his work is a portrait marked by matter-of-fact civility, which he devoted himself to mainly in the 1920s.