Endre Nemes

Endre Nemes (November 10, 1909 – September 22, 1985; born with the family name Nágel) was a Hungarian-Slovako-Czecho-Swedish Surrealist artist who had a background in Lyrical Abstraction.

[1] While his early exhibitions included tailors' dummies and écorchés,[2] he was notable in Sweden for his use of enamels in public art.

[6] As a Jew, he escaped from Czechoslovakia before World War II, was in Helsinki in 1938,[2] traveled through Finland and Norway, and ended up in Sweden where he held his first solo exhibition in 1941 in Stockholm.

[8] In 1980, Nemes was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal and in 1984 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg.

The same year the three large tapestries he designed for Första Sparbanken in Stockholm were completed at Jindřichův Hradec in Czechoslovakia under the direction of Josef Müller.