biografia di Karoly FULOP (1898-1963)

Birth place: Czabadka, Hungary

Death place: Los Angeles, CA

Addresses: NYC, 1920s/Gloucester, MA, 1921; Los Angeles, by 1927

Profession: Sculptor, painter

Studied: painting in Budapest, Munich, Paris

Exhibited: WMAA, 1920-27; S. Indp. A., 1921; Gloucester, 1922, 1923; Babcock Gal., 1924; Doll and Richards, Boston, 1925; AIC, 1926; Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, 1930 (solo); Los Angeles County Mus., 1930 (solo); 1940 (solo); Calif.-Pacific Int. Expo, San Diego, 1935; Fnd. Western Artists, 1936; GGE, 1939; WFNY, 1939 (prize); Fine Arts Gal., San Diego, 1940 (Snyder Prize)

Comments: Began as a painter; turned to sculpture, modeling in ceramics and carving wood and ivory figures in the late 1920s. He established a school for decorative arts in his Los Angeles studio in 1931. He often depicted figures engaged in religious practices. Also designed two-part works.

Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists of California, 195; Fort, The Figure in American Sculpture, 196 (w/repro.)

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