Ľudovít Lehen

Infobox Artist
name = Ľudovít Lehen

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birthname = Ľudovít Lehen
birthdate = birth date|1925|6|3|mf=y
Czechoslovakia, in present-day Slovakia
nationality = Slovakian
field = Many and diverse fields of arts and chess composition
movement = cubism

Ľudovít Lehen (born on 3 June 1925 in Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia) is a painter and a FIDE Master for chess compositions.

Biography

Lehen studied at the University of Arts, Bratislava between 1949 to 1955 under the professors D.Milly, V.Hložník.In 1956 Lehen won first place in the Czechoslovak national competition for realist productions and a year later won second place in a graphics art competition, huh. Near the conclusion of the fifties his works toured Belgium, China and the Soviet Union. Ultimately, he was charged in a show trial typical of communist Czechoslovakia, and from 1962 he spent 6 years behind bars at Leopoldov Prison. During the reforms of the Prague Spring of 1968 he was found innocent and released, and after his release Lehen started painting and become very solitary. Some of his works are now on permanent display at the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava. [Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava] .

He composes chess problems since 1977. He has gained distinctions including the first prizes in many chess composition tourneys, often in coauthorship with IM Juraj Brabec. This composing duo pioneered many complex themes in fairy twomovers, working usually in a way Brabec proposing the scheme and Lehen finishing it the artistically satisfactory manner. In 2005 he became a FIDE master of chess compositions. [ [http://www.saunalahti.fi/~stniekat/pccc/fm.htm FIDE-Masters for chess compositions] saunalahti.fi] [ [http://www.saunalahti.fi/~stniekat/pccc/hcc40.pdf Handbook of Chess Compositions] Pdf saunalahti.fi]

Exhibitions in Slovakia [Bills to exhibitions]

* 1967 – Leopoldov
* 1968 – Leopoldov
* 1973 – Trenčín – Art Protisy
* 1985 – Šaľa – Pastels
* 1998 – Galanta – Selection
* 2001 – ACTS - Bratislava
* 2003 – Bratislava Parliament

Present

Currently he lives in Petržalka in Bratislava. His flat is his studio and sometimes serves as an exhibition room. His art centres on the female figure, sometimes as a daughter and sometimes as Venus or a girl in traditional clothing. The figures are stylized and include influences from non-European art.

External links

* [http://www.ludolehen.com/ Ludo Lehen]
* [http://www.ludolehen.com/mger.htm Flower among Be tone - Marco Gerbi about Ludo Lehen in 2005 (published also in Italian ARTEIN)]
* [http://www.ludolehen.com/dval.htm Dušan Valocký : To independent exhibitions Ludo Lehen - 2001]
* [http://web.telecom.cz/vaclav.kotesovec/ludo2008/ludo2008.htm With friends of chess composition - April 2008]
* [http://lorinc.blog.sme.sk/c/14566/Ludo-Lehen-80.html To 80. birthday Ludo Lehen]
* [http://jurajlorinc.tripod.com/chess/autoril.htm List of selected chess problems by composers]
* [http://www.rubriky.net/hl/hl_index.php List of chess problems in Slovak newspapers]

References

* Chronicle Trencin
* Chronicle Leopoldov
* Bills to exhibitions
* Slovak organization compositional chess ( Slovenská organizácia kompozičného šachu ) - Juraj Brabec, Juraj Lörinc: Ludo Lehen.
* [http://jurajlorinc.tripod.com/chess/xlehen.htm Ludovit Lehen bio and selected chess compositions] at jurajlorinc.tripod.com