Ernest Klausz (1898 Eger -1970) Hungary Musical Composition

Ernest Klausz (1898 Eger - 1970) Hungary Musicalist Composition

Pastel
31.5 x 41 cm
Signed, dated, and titled lower right on the support Gluck's Orpheus Elysian Fields 1955
Corresponds to the thirtieth and most famous opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, a composer of the Classical period, and recounts the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Ernest Klausz (1898 - 1970) was a Hungarian artist, painter, and stage designer. He first trained at the Budapest Polytechnic School before turning to painting, with the aim of uniting art and technique. Settling in Berlin after the First World War, he was influenced by research on the correspondences between music and color, as well as by the visual experiments at the Bauhaus. In 1931, he moved to Paris and joined the group of musicalist painters founded by Henry Valensi. His approach is based on the idea that color, like sound, is a vibration capable of expressing profound emotions. He seeks to create, through the rhythm of forms, lines, and chromatic contrasts, a true visual music. Painting thus becomes a plastic equivalent of musical composition.