Drei Musiker

Künstler*in Georg Mayer-Marton (1897 Raab/ Győr – 1960 Liverpool)

Object typeGemälde
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
96,5 x 61 cm
Inventory number6514
Locations Derzeit nicht ausgestellt
The son of a Jewish doctor from Győr/Raab, Georg Mayer-Marton studied at the academies in Vienna and Munich, moving to Vienna in 1923. He was a member of the Hagenbund artist association until 1938. After Austria’s annexation to Nazi Germany in March 1938, he fled to Britain. Most of his works were destroyed in an air raid on London in 1940. He discovered after the war that his mother and younger brother had been murdered in the Holocaust. From 1952 he taught at Liverpool College of Art. The painting Three Musicians, created one year before he died, demonstrates not only his love of music but also his readiness to paint his subjects in an almost completely abstract style.