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Biography of Victor Vasarely
Name: Victor Vasarely
Birth Date: April 9, 1908
Death Date: March 15, 1997
Place of Birth: Pécs, Hungary
Nationality: Hungarian
Gender: Male
Occupations: artist
Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely (1908-1997), the Hungarian-French artist, was recognized as the greatest innovator and master of Op Art.Victor de Vasarely was born in Pécs, Hungary, on April 9, 1908. As a young man he attended the Academy of Painting in Budapest (1925-1927) and then studied under Alexander Bortnyik at the Mühely, also known as the Bauhaus School of Budapest (1929-1930). The Bauhaus schools were noted for approaches to architecture and graphic design that were compatible with machine production of high quality and with well-designed objects and environments. At the Mühely, Vasarely became acquainted with the formal and geometrical styles of Paul Klee and Vasily Kandinsky and with William Ostwald's theory of color scales.Early WorkIn 1930, Vasarely moved to Paris, and after that remained a resident of France. He married Claire Spinner; they had two sons. In the 1930s Vasarely was a graphic designer and a poster artist who frequently …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the Vasarely Museum was opened in the house in which the artist was born in Pécs, Hungary. To permanently house his works, the Vasarely Center was opened in New York City in 1978 and the Centre Vasarely opened in Oslo, Norway, in 1982. Vasarely's work in film and architectural design as well as his more famous art and graphic design earned him a prominent place in the history of modern art.Victor Vasarely died in Paris on March 15, 1997 at the age of 90. Further Reading Vasarely's own writings include Plasticité (1969) and Vasarely (1978). Editions du Griffon of Neuchatel, Switzerland, has published three volumes--Vasarely (1963); Vasarely II (1970), and Vasarely III (1974)--which are invaluable sources for the visual study of the artist's work, though each volume has very little text. For biographies, see Werner Spies, Vasarely (1969) and G. Diehl, Vasarely (1972). F. Popper's Origin and Development of Kinetic Art has a section on Vasarely.
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