Biography

Vilmos Csaba Perlrott, -one of the outstanding representative and creators of the Hungarian avant-garde style- was born in 1880 in Békéscsaba (city in southern Hungary). For the advice of József Koszta he painted in the Artist Colony of Baia Mare from 1903, as a pupil of Béla Iványi-Grünwald. In 1906 he won a scholarship to Paris, where he enrolled to the Julian Academy, than from 1908 he became the student of Henri Matisse. In 1907 he exhibited with the “Fauves” painter group at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. He had single exhibitions in Paris in 1908, 1909 and in 1912.

In 1910 in the lead of Béla Iványi-Grünwald and with the other “Neo” companions he moved from Baia Mare to Kecskemét (the seventh largest city in Hungary.) and they founded there the Artist Colony of Kecskemét. Between 1920 and 1923 with his wife Margit Gráber, he lived in Germany and he met with the expressionism. His favorite motifs were the Seine bridges and Notre Dame. From 1924 he was the tribe members and permanent exhibitor of the New Society of Artists. In 1949 he was admitted to the Society of Painters of Szentendre. 

Vilmos Csaba Perlrott was the renewal of the XX. Century’s Hungarian painting language. He was one of the most prominent representative of the Hungarian “Fauves”. On the artist colony of Baia Mare he belonged to the “neo” (neo-impressionist trend) painting group. The German Expressionists, among the olds, the Spanish Mannerist painter El Greco, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin had great effect on his painting. In his art he was combining the new styles (Fauvism, Cubism, Pablo Picasso) with the respect of traditions (József Koszta, Károly Ferenczy).