Victor Vasarely

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1906 born in Pecs (HU)
1925 studied Medical Studies at Budapest University
1927 left Medical Studies to learn about traditional academic painting at private Podolini-Volkmann Academy
1928-1929 enrolled at Sandor Bortnyik’s mühely (wokshop)
1930 left Hungarz and settled in Paris
1945 after the 2nd World War, opened an atelier in Acrueil, in the Paris suburbs
1961 settled in Annet-sur-Marne, in the Val-de –Marne department

Honours

Gold Medal at the Milan Triennale
Art Critics Priye, Brussels
1970 French Chevalier de l-Ordre de la Legion d’Honneur
1964 Guggenheim Prize

Museums

1987 Vasarely Museum, Zichy palace, Òbuda, Budapest
1976 Vasarely Museum, Pecs, Hungary
1976 Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
1970-1996 Vasarely Museum in Gordes Palace, Vaucluse, France (closed)

Selected Solo Shows

1999 Museum der Stadt Herford
1998 Ulmer Museum
1983 Kunstmuseum, Budapest
1982 Jazz Academy, Budapest
1981 Badishen Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe
1980 Fondation Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1973 Museum of modern Art, Mexico
1970 Chateau des Gordes, Vaucluse, France
1968 Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Fondation Maeght, Berlin
1962 The pace Gallery, Boston, USA
1961 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1959 Fine Art Museum, Caracas
1958 Museum of Modern Art, Montevideo
National Museum, Buenos Aires
1956 Gallery der Spiegel, Köln
1953 Guggenheim Museum, New York