Feiks, Alfréd (1880 - 1955)

A self-taught painter, Alfréd Feiks was one of the Hungarian exponents of Impressionism. He left Hungary in 1897 and lived in Munich, Paris and London before joining the Berliner Secession group (established in 1898) in 1910. He returned to Hungary in 1914 and settled in Budapest. His pictures appeared in Hungarian and international exhibitions from the 1910s to the mid-1940s, including the Könyves Kálmán Szalon, the Műcsarnok gallery, the National Salon and exhibitions of the Hungarian National Art Association. The Ernst Museum held five retrospective exhibitions for him between 1917 and 1932.