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The Eight (A Nyolcak inHungarian language) was anavant-garde art movement of Hungarian painters active mostly inBudapest from 1909 to 1918. They were connected toPost-Impressionism and radical movements in literature and music as well, and led to the rise of modernism in art culture.
The members of The Eight,Róbert Berény,Dezső Czigány,Béla Czóbel,Károly Kernstok,Ödön Márffy,Dezső Orbán,Bertalan Pór andLajos Tihanyi, were primarily inspired by French painters and art movements includingPaul Cézanne,Henri Matisse, andFauvism.
Exhibits were held in 2011 and 2012 in Hungary and Austria, respectively, to mark the centenary of the group's first exhibit as The Eight in Budapest in 1911.
The Eight opened their first exhibition on 30 December 1909 at the Könyves Kálmán Salon (Budapest) under the titleNew Pictures. Their second exhibition, entitledThe Eight, opened in April 1911 in the National Salon. While The Eight as a group had only three exhibitions, their activity was of immense significance, as their influence went far beyond the visual arts. The exhibitions were accompanied by series of symposia, and by events featuring new Hungarian literature and contemporary music.
Márffy was proud of this intellectual kinship throughout his life. A year before his death, he said:
"It fills me with happiness to know that my youth coincided with that memorable period in intellectual development, when not only in Europe but also in Hungary, those seeking new, better things in literature, music, painting, science, politics and social life were carried by vibrant, seething currents. It can’t have been by chance thatEndre Ady broke in with his new songs at the time whenBéla Bartók came with his new chords, when progressive intellectuals gathered round reviews like "Nyugat" (Occident) and "XX. Század" (20th century), when 'Nyolcak' (the Eight), a group that sought new ways appeared (…)"
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