Ferenc Berényi

Ferenc Berényi (Dévaványa, November 9, 1927 – Budapest, August 2, 2004) was a Hungarian painter.

He studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts between 1949 and 1953 where his prominent teachers were Jenő Barcsay and Endre Domanovszky. From 1954 he was a regular participant of many exhibitions in Hungary and many other cities, like Moscow, Prague, Warsaw, Sofia, Košice, Kuwait, Bombay, Lausanne, Teheran, Paris, Basel, Washington and Helsinki. In 1961 he was one of the founding members of the Studio of Young Artists. In the same year he got a three-year Derkovits Scholarship and moved to Szolnok where he lived and continued his art until 2004. He was a two-time board member of the painter class of direction of the Hungarian Fine and Applied Arts. From 1975 to 1982 he taught at the University of Art and Design .

Awards

1961–1964: Derkovits Scholarship 1966: Artists Union Country Council Art Award 1968: Munkácsy Award 1975: Szolnok Painter Triennial, 1st Prize, 1978: Szolnok County Council Art Award

Exhibitions 1964 • Szolnok, Szigligeti Theater 1966 • Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest 1967 • Ernst Museum, Budapest 1967 • Szolnok, János Damjanich Museum 1968 • Hódmezővásárhely, János Tornyai Museum 1979 • Horticultural Institute 1981 • Sofia 1983 • Szolnok, Collective Studio 1984 • Szolnok, Cultural Center 2003 • Szolnok, János Damjanich Museum 2007. November 9. - 2008. February Szolnok Gallery, In memoriam Berényi Ferenc

Works in public ownership Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery Szolnok, János Damjanich Museum Hódmezővásárhely, János Tornyai Museum, Sárospatak, Art Gallery Miskolc, Art Gallery Helsinki, Hungarian Embassy Washington, D.C., Hungarian Embassy Athens, Hungarian Embassy