Etienne Hajdu

Etienne Hajdu or István Hajdú (1907 - 1996) is a Sculpteur news École of Paris.

Biography

Etienne Hajdu is born the August 12th 1907 with Turda in Transylvania (Romania) parents Hungarian.

After studies of 1923 to 1925 at the School of professional training of the industry of the wood of Ujpest with Budapest then, in 1926, for three months at the School of Art Decorative of Vienna (Austria), it comes to Paris in October 1927. He is pupil (drawing of naked) during six months of Bourdelle to the Académie of the Large Thatched cottage then of Niclausse at the School of decorative arts until in 1929 and discovers works of Fernand Leger. In 1930 it binds with Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szenes. Naturalized French, it achieves its military service in 1931 and 1932 then carries out in 1935 study trips in Holland, in 1937 in Greece and Crête where it is impressed by the antiquated sculpture and cycladic. It follows to the working University the courses of biology of Marcel Prenant.

Etienne Hajdu exposes in 1939 with Szenes and Vieira da Silva to the gallery Jeanne Bucher which presents its work then regularly (1946, 1948, 1952, 1957). Mobilized then demobilized he works in an aluminum factory close to Tarascon then in a marble-mason's yard with Bagnères-with-Bigorre. He teaches in 1947 the sculpture with the workshop of Fernand Leger. In 1950 it builds its house-workshop with Bagneux.

Etienne Hajdu carries out in 1962 a voyahe in the United States and Mexico. He receives in 1969 the Grand Prix of the sculpture.

Among his very many later exposures, in France and abroad, in particular to the Knœdler gallery of New York (1958) and Paris (1965 and 1968), Etienne Hajdu exposes in 1959 to Krefeld with Alicia Penalba, in 1973 with Juana Muller and Baltasar Lobo with the Musées of Metz and of the Luxembourg. Between 1966 and 1976, Etienne Hajdu creates a big number of decorations and forms for the national Manufacture of Sevres. He illustrates stamps " Règnes" , poems of Pierre Lecuire (1961), " The Body clairvoyant" , poems of Jacques Dupin (1963) " Héraclite ", fragments translated by Clemence Ramnoux (1965), " Ode with the neige" , poem of Henri Pichette (1967), " Song of the voyelles" texts of the " Book of Dead the " Egyptian (1974). It receives in 1969 the Grand Prix of sculpture.

Hajdu dies in Bagneux on March 24th, 1996.

Work

The abstraction appears in the work of Hajdu since 1932-1934 but it is as from the years 1950 qu ' it creates its particular style.

Hajdu carried out sculptures, low-reliefs and high reliefs out of wooden, marble and onyx, bronzes and lead, aluminum and copper but also of the " estampilles" on paper.

Museums

Works of Hajdu are preserved

in France at the Center Pompidou of (Paris), in Frac Ile-de-France (the Plate), in Frac Brittany (Châteaugiron), with the Museums of Dijon and Grenoble, with the Museum of Périgord (Périgueux), with the Zervos museum with Vézelay,
in Germany with the Folkwang Museum of Essen, " Abteiberg" museum; of Mönchengladbach,
in the United States with MOMA, the Museum Guggenheim of New York, with the " San Francisco Museum off Modern Art" , with the " Philips collection" of Washinton,
in Luxembourg with the Museum of state,
in Hungary with the Museum of the Art schools of Budapest,
in Romania with the Museum of art of Bucharest,
in Macedonia with the " Museum off Contemporary Art" of Skopje.

Selective bibliography

Robert Ganzo, Hajdu , the Museum of Pocket, Georges Fall, Paris, 1957 (32 p. and 16 boards).
Ionel Jianou, Etienne Hajdu , Arted, Paris, 1972.
Etienne Hajdu , National museum of modern art, Paris, 1973 (70 p.).
Etienne Hajdu, works on paper , foreword of Pierre Georgel, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1979 (60 p.) ISBN 2858500835.
Jacques Dupin, Space in other words , Galileo, 1982 sculpture of Etienne Hajdu '', pp. 81-89
Pierre Descargues, Etienne Hajdu, drawings , the Eye of Griffon, 1987.

Catalog of films

Yves Kovács, Etienne Hajdu or the parallel world , 1974.

External bonds

Hajdu with the FRAC Brittany, Seven columns with Mallarmé (1967-1971)

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