Education
He studied together with Dezsõ Korniss at Fernand Léger in Paris in 1930-1934 where he was introduced to cubism and surrealism.
He studied together with Dezsõ Korniss at Fernand Léger in Paris in 1930-1934 where he was introduced to cubism and surrealism.
He was a student of István Csók at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1927-1930. He lived and worked in Szentendre, Hungary. Following the method of composers Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály he collected folk art motifs in Szentendre and Szigetmonostor for his artworks.
He combined religious (Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic and Jewish) symbols, architectural and folk art motifs, abstract, figurative, and surrealistic elements on his pictures to create complex visionary images.
His last abstract surreal drawings foreshadow the horrors of World World War World War II He died of tuberculosis in 1941. He is considered to be the most distinctive of the Hungarian avant-garde movement.
Vajda's art influenced generations of Hungarian artists, among them the members of the European School Art Group (established in 1945) and the Vajda Lajos Studio (established in 1972).
Lajos's work "Lámpaember báránnyal" was sold at Nagel Auction "Modern Art: Selected Works of Art" for $61,821 in 2016.
The painter's works are kept in museums and private collections, including the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest and the Vajda Lajos Museum in Szentendre, Hungary.
Huge Landscape Mask
Girl Icon
Lelátás a templomdombról
Green Semicircle with Orange
Monster's Head
Houses at Szentendre with Crucifix
Chinese Execution
Silver Gnome
Mask with Moon
Madonna above the Gate
Winged Creature on Silvery Ground
Monster in Blue Space
Green Clown Mask
Head with House
Black Self-Portrait
Spotty House
Oil-Lamp with Whistle
Still-life on a Table of Horseshoe Form
Self-Portrait in a Mask
Tiger and Lillies
War - fight
Village Motifs with Self-portrait
Sisters
Tolstoj and Gandhi
Rider
Moulding Powers on the Horizon
Gustave Fleury
Plate Still-life above Houses
Self Portrait with Icon
Houses in Szentendre with Blue Sky
Mask Icon
Self-portrait
Montage with the Portrait of Lajos Szabó
Leg and Hand
Ancestral Nature
Floating Houses
Tower with Still-life on a Plate
Dark Self-Portrait
Melon Head
Self-portrait
Composition with Braided Hair
Table Still-life with Armchair
Fire-Eye
View of Szentendre
Lámpaember báránnyal
His art influenced generations of Hungarian artists among them the members of the European School Art Group (established in 1945) and the Vajda Lajos Studio (established in 1972).
