The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Wandering Violinist, Abony

Wandering Violinist, Abony

1921, printed 1980
(American, 1894–1985)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 24.6 x 19 cm (9 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 25.3 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of Alan and Monah L. Gettner 2021.119
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

In the early 1920s, André Kertész did clerical work at the Budapest stock market and photographed in his free time.

Description

As a young man, Kertész often photographed rural and small-town life in Hungary. Abony is an agricultural town about 50 miles outside Budapest. This violinist, André Kertész remembered, was “a blind musician not a gypsy, who wandered from village to village with his boy.” He made his living playing for donations.
  • 1980-2021
    Alan and Monah L. Gettner, New York, NY
    June 7, 2021
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Kertész, André, and Hilton Kramer. Hungarian Memories. 1982. p. 63
  • {{cite web|title=Wandering Violinist, Abony|url=false|author=André Kertész, Hyperion Press|year=1921, printed 1980|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.119