Gyergyádesz László, ifj.: „Csavargó”. Mednyánszky László élete és művészete (Kecskemét, 2007)
(Nehre, Nähre, today Strázky, Slovakia), and from 1861 they moved there finally. The late renaissance Szirmay Castle in Nagyőr with its closed yard and aedicule corollas decoration, its English park and the romantic surroundings with the Tatra Mountains became even more decisive for Mednyánszky, several peculiarities and substantive phases of his painting can be originated from here. But Nagyőr also had a different heritage: ‘Our mother’s father, Boldizsár Szirmay was a great scientist and an eccentric man; he was attracted by the East so much, he was obsessed with it so much that he himself in his whole personality became an oriental man. He did not like company, he Vázlatkönyvi rajz - Játszó gyerekek (1890 k., kát. 25.) Sketch-book drawing - Playing Children (around 1890, cat. lived to his books and studies, and he was a great historian. Many of his customs, way of thinking, objectivity, breadth of view, his special humour were inherited by my brother, Baron László Mednyánszky. Such as his unlimited love of liberty, his wanderings, his moody hiking, and his love towards the Greek language. He wrote all his notes in Greek; László, whose Greek was not as good as his father’s, took down his notes with Greek letters at least’. The parents of the premature infant, who was often ill (meningitis) on the advice of a doctor called Moskovics, tried to isolate him from the world, prevent from quick movement, so he started his studies quite 25)
