Poppy-seed Cake

1910 · Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest

still-life

Fényes painted this still-life during his second, more cheerful and colourful period. The physical environment of the Hungarian bourgeoisie in the beginning of the 20th century is depicted in these still-lifes. The popularity of these pictures at that time was due to the fact that those who purchased them recognized their own environment in these paintings.

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About the Artist

Adolf Fényes

1867 – 1945

Hungarian painter, who studied in Budapest, Weimar and Paris, then returned to Weimar, and finally, came back to Budapest. He first exhibited in 1895. After 1898 he spent the summers in Szolnok, from autumn until the spring he lived in Budapest. Among his early works the most famous are his one and two-figure compositions depicting poor people. During the first decades of the 20th century he turned towards more cheerful and colourful subjects; he painted genres and still-lifes. During and after the First World War Biblical themes became important in his art. Disheartened by the events of the Second World War he lived in seclusion and hardly worked at all.

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