Ferenc Berényi


Ferenc Berényi was a Hungarian painter.
He studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts between 1949 and 1953 where his prominent teachers were Jenő Barcsay and Endre Domanovszky. From 1954 he was a regular participant of many exhibitions in Hungary and many other cities, like Moscow, Prague, Warsaw, Sofia, Košice, Kuwait, Bombay, Lausanne, Teheran, Paris, Basel, Washington and Helsinki.
In 1961 he was one of the founding members of the Studio of Young Artists. In the same year he got a three-year Derkovits Scholarship and moved to Szolnok where he lived and continued his art until 2004.
He was a two-time board member of the painter class of direction of the Hungarian Fine and Applied Arts. From 1975 to 1982 he taught at the University of Art and Design.

Awards

  1. 1961-1964: Derkovits Scholarship
  2. 1966: Artists Union Country Council Art Award
  3. 1968: Munkácsy Award
  4. 1975: Szolnok Painter Triennial, 1st Prize,
  5. 1978: Szolnok County Council Art Award

    Exhibitions

  6. 1964 • Szolnok, Szigligeti Theater
  7. 1966 • Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
  8. 1967 • Ernst Museum, Budapest
  9. 1967 • Szolnok, János Damjanich Museum
  10. 1968 • Hódmezővásárhely, János Tornyai Museum
  11. 1979 • Horticultural Institute
  12. 1981 • Sofia
  13. 1983 • Szolnok, Collective Studio
  14. 1984 • Szolnok, Cultural Center
  15. 2003 • Szolnok, János Damjanich Museum
  16. 2007. November 9. - 2008. February Szolnok Gallery, In memoriam Berényi Ferenc

    Works in public ownership

  17. Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery
  18. Szolnok, János Damjanich Museum
  19. Hódmezővásárhely, János Tornyai Museum,
  20. Sárospatak, Art Gallery
  21. Miskolc, Art Gallery
  22. Helsinki, Hungarian Embassy
  23. Washington, D.C., Hungarian Embassy
  24. Athens, Hungarian Embassy