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Béni Ferenczy
Béni Ferenczy (1890 – 1967) was a Hungarian sculptor and graphic artist.
Early life and education.
Béni Ferenczy was born in 1890 in Szentendre, Hungary, the second son of Károly Ferenczy and Olga Fialka, both painters. His sister Noémi was his fraternal twin. All three of the children became artists: Valér was a painter, Béni a sculptor and Noémi a weaver.
As a young man, Ferenczy went to Munich and Paris to study art, as did many artists from Hungary
- Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (painter)
- Gergely Czuczor (linguist, poet)
- Dezső Szabó (linguist, writer)
- Béni Egressy (composer)
- Loránd Eötvös (physicist)
- Ferenc Erkel (composer)
- János Fadrusz (sculptor)
- György Faludy (writer, poet, translator)
- Ferenc Fejtő (journalist, political scientist)
- Károly Ferenczy (painter, along with Béni Ferenczy and Noémi Ferenczy, his brother and sister)
- János Garay (poet