Rare Pre World War II (Pre Holocaust) Judaica Art. European Judaic art from this period is exceedingly rare. Nandor Brenner Viday, Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1903, date of death unknown (but I have seen it on the Albright Knox museum website as 1944). He was a painter and graphic artist who studied initially at the School of Arts between 1918-21 with Master Eugene Jeno Haranghy, then at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts between 1923-25 with Master Oszkar Glatz, then Academie Julian in Paris. He began exhibiting his work in 1920 and attracted immediate attention. In 1925 he won Hungary’s Benczur Prize, in 1926 he won a Gold Medal in the Hungarian National Exhibition for a religiously-themed work in a Baroque-style copperplate engraving, followed with the Ferencz Jozsef Prize in 1928. From 1920 on exhibitions. In 1930 at the Ernst Museum, in 1937 at the Salon of the Studio He was a member of the Munkacsy Ceh and Szinyei Merse Art Groups His paintings reflect the influence of both naturalism and expressive elements and he participated in major exhibitions throughout, Hungary, Europe and the U.S. Known for his Jewish genre scenes, Chess scenes and other early 20th Century salon style paintings. In the tradition of Moritz Oppenheim, Isidor Kauffman and Maurycy Gottlieb and later of Tully Filmus and Itshak Holtz he captures his Jewish interior scenes with a particular sensitivity. Literature BUDAY B .: Hungarian Masters: Vyda, Art, 1943 POWDER Ö. G .: Hungarian painting in the 20th century century, Budapest, 1959. Individual exhibitions 1930 • Ernst Museum, Budapest 1937 • Exhibition of a collection in the Salon of the Studio [István Juharos]. Selected group exhibitions 1926 • II. Hungarian National Church Art Exhibition , Budapest 1927 • Exhibition of the Szinyei Merse Society , Budapest 1928 • Hungarian Handicraft Exhibition, Philadelphia (USA) • József Ferencz Jubileum Scholarship Exhibition , Budapest 1934 • Exhibition of the New Salon , Budapest