Ernő Bánk
Ernő 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, Jenő 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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