Gyergyádesz László, ifj.: Kecskemét és a magyar zsidó képzőművészet a 20. század első felében (Kecskemét, 2014)
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Iványi Grünwald Béla: Kecskeméti táj / Béla Iványi Grünwald: Kecskemét Scenery (1910) large numbers never before or after were present in the first lines of the Hungarian Modernism: among the most significant masters of Nagybánya we can find déclassé gentries while Christian proletarians taking up art as a profession, or penniless petty bourgeois played a fundamental role in the avant-garde of the mid 1910s” In his letter of the donation Marcell Nemes alluded to the fact that the foundation of the collection is closely related to the creation of the Artists’ Colony of Kecskemét. “I would like to express my appreciation for the generous and exemplary decision of the town of Kecskemét establishing a colony for Hungarian artists and building studio houses for them [...] "Around 1909 Kecskemét arrived at a stage of economic, cultural and urbanization level of development that mayor Elek Kada was right in deciding that Kecskemét - being the fourth one in line - could safely join the artists’ colony-founding “movement” after Nagybánya, Szolnok and Gödöllő. ‘Another highly disputed and condemned work of Kada in connection with art was the colony Kada Le. constantly kept in touch with different circles of writers and artists after having moved from Budapest, and if he stayed that long in the capital he usually drank his coffee at the Otthon. And these occasions of having black coffees marked the townscape... [...] I believe that the idea of the art colony originated in the circle of Otthon in Budapest which he wanted to establish with the artists of Nagybánya (with the colony Europe-wide known in the era). [...] Kada was inspired by the thought that artists should be deeply involved with the Hungarian lowland landscape and should feel the love of the Hungarian nation, therefore, the Hungarian national spirit would be intensified among them. He wanted to raise the public to a level where they can get used to art and respect it duly.” It is a novelty that this colony was initiated by the municipality itself which also undertook the creating of the necessary conditions. Another new feature was that the establishment was introduced by an art colony programme written by Béla Iványi 51
