Ernő Bánk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hungarian artist
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1883
Place of Birth: Szalmatercs, Nógrád County, Hungary
Date of Death: 17-Jul-1962
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ernő Bánk
- Erno Bánk (1883, Szalmatercs - 1962, Budapest) was a Hungarian painter and teacher noted for his miniature portraits.
- He was a member of the Association of Hungarian Watercolour and Pastel Painters. Bánk trained as a secondary school teacher and in 1915 obtained a doctorate in geography and history from Budapest Pázmány Péter University.
- He also studied painting under Henrik Pap and Béla Sándor at the School of Applied Arts.
- Between 1914 and 1918 he painted portraits for the 30th Infantry Regiment that were shown at the Museum of Military History.
- In 1918 and 1919 he worked as secretary for the Civil Radical Party.
- Around 1925 he was a part of Vilmos Aba-Novák's Zugliget painting group which also consisted of Károly Patkó and Emil Kelemen.
- In the summer of 1927 and 1928 besides his close co-operation with Aba-Novák and Patkó, he worked together with Kelemen, Jeno Barcsay and Eszter Mattioni in Igal and Törökkoppány, in Somogy County.
- In 1927 at the Hungarian Landscape and Genre-painting Exhibition in the Budapest Art Gallery and at the Balaton Society's Third Exhibition in 1928 he was awarded the prize of the Szinnyei Merse Pál Society.
- In the 1930s he made hundreds of portraits and miniatures to order.
- From the mid-1940s he attended exhibitions of The Free Organisation of Hungarian Artists and of the National Salon with his artwork.
- He died in 1962.
- Exhibitions of his work were held in the Hungarian National Gallery in 1978 and in the Budapest Historical Museum in 1984.
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