Name Emil Fur | ||
Occupation Fine Artist, painter, illustrator. | ||
Emil Für (born 1 April 1967 ) is a painter and graphic artist.
Emil Für was born in Budapest. He studied art history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His illustrations appear in the Hungarian periodical Szombat, in a Jewish anthology Katalin Pécsi entitled "There are no Butterflies Here", in Géza Röhrig's "The Rebbeh's Featherless Parrot", and on the CD cover to Yale Strom, klezmer musician. Für obtained a scholarship from Soros Foundation, and from the Strabag and the European Association of Jewish Culture of London. He has exhibited his work at the International Festival of Visual Arts in Acre in Israel; in Saloniki in Greece; at the Budapest Gallery and the "DEPO" Jewish Museum in Budapest,and the exhibition "The Machagodzilla Rabbit rides the Rocket Horse-Bela Lugosi and Houdini's Breakfast" in the Spiro Ark, London, as well as at the Association of Hungarian Painters and Israelis Artis. He working now in London. His European Association of Jewish Culture project, "DEPO" will be an installation of a series of paintings revealing the whimsy, irony and breadth of the Jewish experience.