Scholz: Figures in a Landscape modernist Hungarian Art

A rare and poetic figurative work by Eric Scholz, dating from the 1980s.  
Scholz was a Hungarian artist who trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He was awarded the prestigious Munkácsy Award in 1950, and received stipends to work and study in Paris later in that decade.
Between the 1950s and the 1980s, his work was shown at the Salon d'Automne, in group exhibitions at the Hall of Art and the Museum Ernst in Budapest, at Art Basel in Switzerland, at the Kunsthalle Tübingen in Germany, and at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna, Austria.

A mixed media work with impasto on masonite board, our painting measures 35 x 50 cm and is unsigned. The overall size with a simple white frame are 38 x 53 cm. Provenance: estate of the artist.