On this page you can see art works of Hungarian communist painter Bertalan Pór. It is interesting to observe the evolution in his work and the many twists and turns until he arrived at Socialist Realism.
Pór studied at Nagybánya, later joining “the Eight” group of avant-garde artists. In the course of his career he was able to overcome the bourgeois influences of his early period. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic he was the head of the painting department of the Art Directorate and designed some of the most iconic posters for the revolution. After the revolution he lived in emigration in the Soviet Union. After his return to Hungary in 1948 he changed his style completely, and began producing works of Socialist Realism.
Portrait of Róbert Berény’s father, 1900White Summer Landscape, 1901Self-Portrait, 1902Boy, ca. 1902Lady in a Hat, 1905Woman in White Dress, 1906Landscape in the Alföld, 1906Road to Village Houses, N. Saal, 1906Painter in Atelier with Palette, 1906Portrait of Bertalan Pór Mužský 1906Clouds, 1906Summer Road, 1907Highlands family in front of the houses, 1907Gypsies, 1907Gipsy, 1907Landscape, 1908Landscape by a Brook, 1908The Family, 1909Portrait of a Man (Vambery Armin), 1909Sunlit house, 1909Sunlit landscape with bridge, 1909Shady Riverside, 1909Lights by the River, 1909Summer Field, before 1910Study to the Longing for True Love, ca. 1910Sunlit Landscape with Bridge, ca. 1910Park Scene with Red Trees (Sitting on the Bench), ca. 1910Street in a village, 1910Boy in a Blue Shirt (Gipsy Boy), 1910Longing For Pure Love, 1910Sermon on the Mount, ca. 1911Park, 1911Forest Path, 1911Study to the Folks Opera, 1911Portrait of a Man, 1911Path in the forest, 1912Woman Wearing Red Dress, 1912-1914Landscape in Krahovice, 1914Lights on the riverside, 1914Spring Lights, 1918Expressive Landscape, 1918Patakpart (Brook side), 1919Poster for the Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919Proletarians of the world unite!, 1919. (A very famous poster for the Hungarian Soviet Republic)Self-portrait, 1920Sitting Nude, 1924Male Nude. Date unknown.Village Houses, 1925Shepherd. Date unknownSailor. Date unknown.Paris. Date unknown.Road to the village. Date unknown.Shepherd and His Lover, 1927Borjak , 1927-1927Portrait of E. Chirenkova, 1929Bull, 1930Mihaly Karolyi, 1930The Runner, 1935Margitka, 1938Self-Portrait, 1930s Self-Portrait, 1930s Self-Portrait, 1930s Bulls, 1948J. V. Stalin 1950Reception of the delegates of the 1st Congress of Producer Cooperatives in the Parliament, 1950Urak országából dolgozók hazája, 1951Portrait of Mátyás Rákosi, 1952 Self-Portrait. Date unknown.Self-Portrait, 1953
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