Nagy Balogh János

Budapest, XIX. kerület, Ady Endre út 43., Lakóháza falán látható.Felállítás: 1971 Hársch Ferenc (2011.01.07. 08:23): Nagy Balogh János kubista festő és grafikus proletársorból származott, Budapest akkori külvárosának számító Kispesten született. Gyermekkora és késő ifjúsága is Kispesten telt, nagyon nagy szegénység közepette. Szoba-konyhás kispesti lakásának fehérre meszelt falai a kastélyok selyemkárpitját jelentette számára. | Hársch Ferenc (2011.01.07. 08:23): Nagy Balogh, János Painter. "He came from a working class family. After working as a house-painter, he studied at the School of Industrial Trade Drawing for two years, and attended an evening course of the School of Design in 1898-99. He was a pupil of Hertenich at the Munich Academy for six months where he painted models posing in the nude, but his bad financial situation forced him to return to Hungary where he did odd jobs as a house-painter and painted pictures in summers only. He joined the army in 1915. After a serious injury, his arm became paralyzed, so that he went on painting with his left arm. He painted pictures of his poorly home with appalling realism and dramatic portraits of his mother. His navvy-cycle recalling Millets pictures portrays work in a simple, yet monumental way. Beside Rembrandts and Franz Hals art, he was influenced by Cézannes approach to space." http://www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/n/nagy_bal/index.html