Witz Bela

Uitz Bela

(1887-1972)
Monumentalist. Outstanding Hungarian artist. He lived and worked in Kyrgyzstan from 1936 to 1937. Born on March 8, 1887. In 1907, he studied at the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. In 1916, at the World Exhibition in San Francisco, Uitz received a Gold Medal. In 1919, during the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he led the Proletarian Art Workshop. He lived in exile in Vienna (1920—1924), in Paris (1924—1926), and in Moscow (1926—1970), where he served as the dean of the painting faculty at the All-Union Art and Technical Institute (VKhUTEMAS) and led a composition course.

In 1930, he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In 1930, Uitz organized the International Bureau of Revolutionary Artists.

In 1954, he received a Gold Medal for frescoes in the pavilions of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy in Moscow. In 1936, at the invitation of the Kyrgyz government, he came to Frunze. Uitz teaches youth the fundamentals of professional craftsmanship, to which he dedicated his life.

MAIN WORKS

A series of drawings made in 1936-1937. Paper, pencil.
Baisobaeva Kakish.
Delegate of the 1st Congress of the Communist Party (B) of Kyrgyzstan.
Young man.
Collective farmer.
Drawings for the fresco in the meeting hall of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz SSR. Paper, pencil.
Aiming fighter.
Shooting fighter. Fighter throwing a boulder.
Sketch for the composition "Uprising of 1916."
Fighter of the 1916 uprising.