ABSTRACT
Art historians in Hungary have largely ignored any appearances of expressionism before the First World War in Hungary, particularly the early reception and influence of German expressionism. The success of the modern trends, “-isms,” stylistic influences, and movements in Western Europe, and the development of their local variants have been central issues in Hungarian art history, which attempts to emphasize, the influence of French art. In the past decade, large exhibitions have focused on the impact of art from Paris during the period before the First World War. Given the historical situation, German-Hungarian contacts became more extensive and direct. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, a number of progressive artists left Hungary and immigrated mostly to Germany. The assimilation of expressionism in Hungary was a long and gradual process. Publications in the 1930s already treated the movement as past history.
