Eve B'Ay
Éva Bednay (Eve B’ay) Fine Artist, Painter was born in Budapest, May 1. 1927. In 1946 she graduated from the Hungarian College of Arts and Crafts. Her masters were Endre Domanovszky, Aladár Kazciány, Erzsébet Páris.
At the age of 43 she emigrated from Hungary. She lived in New York between 1972 and 1974. She had several exhibitions in New York, Cleveland and Chicago. After her years in the USA, she settled down in West-Germany, Bonn. During her study trips she visited many European countries. After 1989 she has been working parallelly in Bonn and Budapest.
She developed her distinctive style during the 60’s. Her new way of using materials and vibrant colours make her figurative pictures so diverse. Additional to oil, she also made use of Eastern Asian varnishing techniques and implementing various materials, such as plastic, glass, organic leaves. Her change of style during the 80’s was marked by the usage of silk and oil crayons. She has become recognized with her collage-like creations. She had two large-scale retrospective exhibitions in The Netherlands and in Budapest, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Her monography has been published in 2010 in Budapest in three lenguages (Hungarian, German and English).
Discover contemporary artworks by Eve B'Ay, browse recent artworks and buy online. Categories: contemporary hungarian artists (born 1927). Artistic domains: Painting, Photography. Account type: Artist , member since 2008 (Country of origin Hungary). Buy Eve B'Ay's latest works on Artmajeur: Discover great art by contemporary artist Eve B'Ay. Browse artworks, buy original art or high end prints.
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Drawings, etchings, gouache • 35 artworks
View allLacquer- and oil-paintings, reverse paintings on glass • 48 artworks
View allOil-paintings and pastels • 58 artworks
View allReligion • 15 artworks
View allStill lives • 35 artworks
View allPortraits, nudes • 39 artworks
View allAbstractions • 35 artworks
View allImaginary landscapes • 12 artworks
View allCulture-Politics • 13 artworks
View allPVC-Wand-hangings (PVC-Mosaics), character-figurines • 19 artworks
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Biography
Éva Bednay (Eve B’ay) Fine Artist, Painter was born in Budapest, May 1. 1927. In 1946 she graduated from the Hungarian College of Arts and Crafts. Her masters were Endre Domanovszky, Aladár Kazciány, Erzsébet Páris.
At the age of 43 she emigrated from Hungary. She lived in New York between 1972 and 1974. She had several exhibitions in New York, Cleveland and Chicago. After her years in the USA, she settled down in West-Germany, Bonn. During her study trips she visited many European countries. After 1989 she has been working parallelly in Bonn and Budapest.
She developed her distinctive style during the 60’s. Her new way of using materials and vibrant colours make her figurative pictures so diverse. Additional to oil, she also made use of Eastern Asian varnishing techniques and implementing various materials, such as plastic, glass, organic leaves. Her change of style during the 80’s was marked by the usage of silk and oil crayons. She has become recognized with her collage-like creations. She had two large-scale retrospective exhibitions in The Netherlands and in Budapest, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Her monography has been published in 2010 in Budapest in three lenguages (Hungarian, German and English).
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HUNGARY (Contemporary Hungarian Artists)
- Date of birth : 1927
- Artistic domains: Painting, Photography, Drawing, Sculpture
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Eva Bednay's retrospective exposition in the Central European Cultural Institute, Budapest
Rákóczi út 15, 1088 Budapest
First large, retrospective expo of Eva Bednay (Eve B'ay) in Hungary since she emigrated at the beginning of 1970-ies and presentation of her monography.
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Eva Bednay (Eve B'ay)large retrospective exposition in the Central-European Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary from 4 to 28 June 2010!
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Eve B'ay exposition to be held in The Netherlands, Wassenaar, Palace De Paauw from 8 January to 22 February 2009!
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Article in Népszabadság, 13. January 2009, by Correspondent Miklós Blahó, Brussels
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Article by István Lovas, Magyar Nemzet, 13. January 2009.
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Éva Bednay (Eve B’ay)
Fine artist, painter
Budapest - New York - Bonn
Mrs. Éva Bednay is one of the most unique Hungarian fine artists who has got a rich life behind her. She was born on 01. May 1927 in Budapest. In 1946 she graduated from the Hungarian College of Arts and Crafts.
She left her home country in the beginning of the 1970-ies, lived in the USA, settled down in Germany in order to assert herself as an artist free from any political constrains. In that sense her career can be considered as an early artistic re-unification of the European continent. Today she is an acclaimed artist in Hungary as well as in the Western half of Europe, with special abstract expressive force to formulate individual thoughts and ideas.
She has developed her distinctive style during the 60’s. Her new way of using materials and vibrant colours make her figurative pictures so diverse. At the beginning of her career, additional to oil, she also makes use of Eastern Asian varnishing techniques.
Her change of style during the 80’s was marked by the usage of silk, textiles and oil crayons. She has become recognized with these special, collage-like creations and assamblages. She uses unique techniques invented by herself to create portraits, nudes and imaginary landscapes. Many of her compositions entail assotiations, formation of special ideas, symbols, but she is also interested in expressing human feelings and characters.
The Hungarian Embassy in the Hague is especially proud to have the possibility to present her artworks to the skilled Dutch audience in January and February next year in the renowned Palace “De Paauw” in Wassenaar. We are very grateful for this opportunity to the Mayor of Wassenaar, Mr. Jan Hoekema, former Cultural Ambassador of the Netherlands as well as Mrs. Eva Mennes-Wuesten who’s assistance makes this exposition possible.

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Éva Bednay - Art and History, Diplomatic Magazine, Budapest, February 2009.
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Éva Bednay - Art and History, Diplomatic Magazine, Budapest, February 2009.
Éva Bednay (Eve B’ay) has been among the
most interesting creative personalities of the
late 20th century. She has more or less been
ignored by the public, as well as the art community,
albeit through no fault of her own.
The reasons for this lie in the political-historical
background which has impacted the fate
and professional activities of the artist, as well
as others.
She was born in 1927 in Budapest, becoming
a renowned artist by the sixties. Along with
her husband, Dezső Bednay who was mostly
known for his enamels, she has taken part in
art education for disabled children, many of
whom have surmounted the difficulties posed
by their condition and became professional
artists themselves.
Even so, her artistic career was profoundly
influenced by the restrictions that were
still present back then in Hungary’s cultural
life. It was compulsory for every artist to be
a member of the the Képzőművészeti Alap
(Foundation of Fine Arts). This group has
first judged her works, along with many others,
then bought them cheap and sold them
abroad, providing a basic means for artists
to make a living, but depriving them of the
opportunity to display their works in front
of the Hungarian audience and art community.
A few weeks ago a gallery in New York has
bought 600 such pieces of art left in the storerooms
throughout the USA, among which her
family has found two early pieces by Éva Bednay.
It was due to sheer luck as much as rigorous research that these pieces that have never
before been seen by the Hungarian public, have
finally made it home. Now the Diplomatic
Magazine presents the two pieces, made with
a trickled lacquer technique.
In the early seventies, spurred on by family
concerns and the need to overcome the restrictions
in artistic work, Éva Bednay has emigrated
first to the United States, then settled
in Bonn, in West-Germany. She has had several
exhibitions in New York, Cleveland, Bonn,
Frankfurt, Cologne, Zurich, Basel, Bergheim
and Münster. Her pictures were displayed at
the end of the eighties at the grand exhibition
in the Műcsarnok, held for Hungarian artists
living abroad.
However, the Republic of Hungary’s embassy
in The Hague, a government agency, has
organized a display encompassing her oeuvre
for the first time. The exhibition was held in
the mid-19th century De Paauw (Peacock) Palace,
which also houses the Mayor’s Office of
Wassenaar. The artist could not be present
personally due to health concerns; even so, she
still works at home. This exhibition has served
to reclaim her for Hungary’s professional circles
and amateur audience.
Following the speeches of Jan Hoekema,
Wassenaar’s Mayor and Iván Udvardi, Hungary’s
Ambassador to The Hague, art historian
Prof. Dr. Heijo Klein, a teacher of the University
of Bonn has emphasized the importance
of the novel approach to materials developed
by the artist herself, as well as her usage of
vivid colors that fit her personality. The Professor
has also described her painting techniques,
such as lacquer painting, silk and textile collages
and oil pastels, sometimes combined with
each other. The Hungarian ambassador has
pointed out that the 20th anniversary of Europe’s
reunification is this year and that the
artist has contributed to this culturally, albeit
so far only implicitly.
Éva Bednay’s works are distinctly feminine
works of art, being very delicate and forming
a complete picture out of small, fine details.
She uses materials for her textile pictures that
would otherwise end up on the waste dumps
of the consumer society, even though they
fascinate her with their color, texture or pattern
of weave, thus being valuable even as used
items. She paints using the colors of the material,
thus expanding the set of artistic tools.
Her images include pieces of fabric and strands
that are of historical value themselves, being
interwoven with human fates and history itself.
Her work raises that which would be lost
without her above its original intended uses.
The oeuvre of Éva Bednay is undoubtedly
characterized by continuous experimentation
and an effort to develop new methods and
unique techniques. However, her works hold
much more than mere fascination with novelty;
they express the spirit and the contradictions
of the age which she worked in. She
strives to find the “key to art”, always looking
for what distinguishes a piece of art from a
mere image, the items of lasting value from
commodities.
Her pictures are multi-layered: they are
beautiful and special at the same time, being
pleasant additions to a home, while also being
deep and conveying important human messages.
They show emotions that touch everyone:
meeting and parting, love and anger, respect
and jealousy, beauty and ugliness, as well
as the fear of mortality and the evanescence of
life. However, Éva Bednay has nothing to fear
of the latter: her lasting works will always
carry the knowledge and the spirit which she
strove to express throughout her artistic career.
A selection of Éva Bednay’s works can be
seen on our website:
ebednay.

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A Szervezet Alapokmány Jogsegély-szolgálat Társadalombiztosítási ügyek Munkavédelem Üdülés Óvoda, bölcsőde Inventar Kft.
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Bednay Éva kiállítása Wassenaar-ban
Bednay Éva Németországban élő képzőművész életmű-kiállítása látható január 15-től február 22-ig a hollandiai Wassenaar polgármesteri hivatalának is otthont adó De Paauw palotában. Ebből az alkalomból vasárnap a wassenaari polgármester - a hágai magyar és német nagykövetséggel közösen - fogadást ad, amelyen Heijo Klein művészettörténész, a bonni egyetem tanára méltatja a műveket és alkotójukat.
Az 1927-ben Budapesten született Bednay Éva a múlt század hatvanas éveiben elismert művésznek számított Magyarországon, a politikai korlátoktól azonban szabadulni igyekezett, és a hetvenes évek elején kivándorolt New Yorkba, majd később Németországban telepedett le. Tudatosan törekedett arra, hogy munkássága a kontinens újraegyesítését szolgálja a művészetek területén - akkor, mikor politikai értelemben erre még nem volt mód.
Az olajfestés mellett alkalmazott különböző kelet-ázsiai lakktechnikákat, később, a nyolcvanas években pedig egyre inkább használta felületként a selymet és a különböző textíliákat, valamint a zsírkréta-eljárásmódokat. A különleges textilmozaikok világának elismert specialistája lett.
Még Budapesten, 1968-ban rendezett egyéni kiállítást. Ezután New Yorkban és Clevelandben 1973-ban, Bonnban 1978-ban, 1983-ban és 1987-ben, továbbá Frankfurtban, Kölnben, Zürichben, Baselben, Bergheimben és Münsterben a nyolcvanas évektől az elmúlt évekig többször volt kiállítása. A Műcsarnokban a nyolcvanas évek elején ismét láthatók voltak művei külföldön élő magyar művészek tárlatán belül.
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1.gyebnr1232009.01.13. 11:05Bednay Éva a XX. század második felének egyik legkimagaslóbb művésze, munkásságát folyamatosan új művészi technikák keresése jellemzi. Képei komoly üzeneteket fogalmaznak meg világunkról, érzelmeket, hangulatokat, esetenként karikatúra-jellegű portréi egyéni karaktereket mutatnak be, ugyanakkor - ellentétben sok más kortárs alkotó munkáival - szépek is. Kár, hogy ez a művész mai világunk forgatagában eddig Magyarországon még nem került igazán bemutatásra. A kiállítás fantasztikus, egyedülálló, mindenkinek ajánlom a megtekintését, aki Hollandiában jár!!!
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