b'55363359 363 364EUROPEAN SCHOOL, ADOLPHE FNYES (1867-1945) ADOLPHE RAGON(Still life with fruits and jars),On the path in autumn, (ENGLISH, 1847-1924)circa 1900, oil on board, circa 1910, Trawler at the waters edge,oil on board, signed indistinctly at lowersigned lower left, oil on board, circa 1920,right, 16 x 22cm. 12.5 x 21.5cm.61 x 74cm. Adolf Fnyes, originally Fischmann (1867,$100200 $5001,000 Kecskemt - 1945, Budapest) was a Hungarian painter of Jewish ancestry. He 360 is best known for his cycle of paintings; ARTIST UNKNOWN, The Life of a Poor Man. His father, Simon Henrik Fischmann (1821-1879), was a A pair of naive farmyard scenes, Rabbi and his grandfather, Israel oil on board, ben Solomon Wahrmann, was the both 30 x 38cm (approx.) first officially recognized Rabbi of $200400the Jewish community in Pest. His uncle, Moritz Wahrmann, was the first Jewish member 361 of the National Assembly. After BERTHA RHODES his fathers death, his family Haymaking, moved to Budapest and took the Hungarian name Fnyes. In watercolour, 1944, he received an exemption signed and dated 1908 lower right, from the government of Mikls 17 x 25cm. Horthy and was able to continue $100200painting. This respite was brief, however. When the Arrow Cross 362 Party took power, he was forced WALTER HENRY SWEETto enter the Budapest Ghetto and barely survived the Siege. Two (BRITISH,1889 - 1943) months later, he died. Sources Ilfracombe from Hillsborough, differ as to whether he suffered watercolour on artists board, a stroke and died in a hospital, signed lower left, or died from hunger, at home. 36 x 54cm. Streets have been named after $100200him in Kecskemt, Szolnok and Budapest.$1,0002,000355'