Feješ Emerik

(Osijek, 1904 – Novi Sad, 1969)

He completed a button maker and comb maker trade, and for a time he worked as a second-hand dealer. Feješ worked in Zagreb, Belgrade, Maribor, and Novi Sad. He started with painting in 1949, after he was discovered by Ivan Tabaković. He painted city motifs, streets, squares, and houses. He painted small formats with tempera in bright colors, using matches or corn hair brushes instead of paint-brushes, and used old postcards and illustrations as inspiration. In 1956, he had his first solo exhibition in Novi Sad, and a retrospective was set up posthumously in Zagreb in 1970. He participated in a large number of exhibitions in the country and abroad.