The Most Famous

ARTISTS from Hungary

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This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarian Artists. The pantheon dataset contains 125 Artists, 1 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 14th most number of Artists behind Ukraine, and Poland.

Top 1

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Hungarian Artists of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997)

With an HPI of 71.01, Victor Vasarely is the most famous Hungarian Artist.  His biography has been translated into 54 different languages on wikipedia.

Victor Vasarely (French: [viktɔʁ vazaʁeli]; born Győző Vásárhelyi, Hungarian: [ˈvaːʃaːrhɛji ˈɟøːzøː]; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement. His work titled Zebra, created in 1937, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op art.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Hungarian artists born between 1906 and 1906. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Hungarian artists include Victor Vasarely.

Deceased Hungarian Artists

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