Dear rico18-ga
On this forum trying to identify an artist without seeing the painting
or the signature is difficult, but I believe your artist is Nándor
Mikola. He was born on November 27th, 1911 in Budapest, Hungary.
There are three other artists named Nandor but they seem not to have
used the accent, and at least one did not sign in the name Nandor.
Nándor Mikola studied at in Budapest and Vienna and then moved to
Finland in 1933. His first exhibition was in 1943. In the following
years his work then became very popular. In 1995, Mikola opened his
own museum in his hometown of Vaasa, Finland and 1979, Nándor Mikola
was awarded the honorary title of Professor of Arts by the State of
Finland. He has also been decorated with a high medal of honour by the
State of Hungary.
His full biography which is on the museum site is
http://www.mikolamuseo.com/html/professor_of_art.html
Please go to the home page of this site where in the top left hand
corner is a copy of his signature (date unknown). It is very strong
and has the accent above the 'a'.
http://www.mikolamuseo.com/index.html
If this is not similar to the signatures on your paintings then please
post a clarification and I shall ask for this answer to be removed.
Most other websites referring to him are in Finnish and they can be
accessed using the links below in the search strategy.
answerfinder-ga
Search strategy
Nandor OR Nándor painter OR painting
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Nandor+OR+N%C3%A1ndor+painter+OR+painting
Nándor Mikola
mikola nandor
://www.google.com/search?q=mikola+nandor&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 |