Zalatnai Pál - Kovács Zita: Miskolczy Ferenc 1899-1944 - A Bajai Türr István Múzeum kiadványai 33. (Baja, 2014)
of Miklós Rózsa: A man's life, Love is an eternal story, The life of Jesus. The albums are curiosities published on bibliophile in only 30 copies. Miskolczy not only rented an atalier and changed genres in 1924, but in his works dated from this year he bulit in the edifications he expressed to himself of european impacts in a ,,post-/nach-" shape. Post-expressionism, post-impressionism, post-cubism, post-constructivism, post-fauvism, new detachedness, and the mixtures of these movements can be revealed in the works made between 1924 and 1930. His most prestigious, unified, outstanding artworks are made in this period. The year 1925 has a special significance in the life of Ferenc Miskolczy for another reason. The painter's brother, Dezső Miskolczy won a Rockefeller-scholarship to Madrid, where he summoned his brother too. During the year spent in Spain, the painter travelled through the streets of Madrid, Segovia, Granada, Seville, Toledo, the Spanish countryside. Artistically also valuable collection of the oeuvre, the masterpieces of the Spanish-era were born at this time. He received the most important "mission" (for him) of his life during the Spanish study tour. Laszlo Miskolczy, the other brother joined a few years before the legitimist group, National Social Circle of Solidarity, for whose request he has to paint the portrait of Archduke Otto von Habsburg residing in Lequeitió. The portrait and a copper-engraving were completed in ten days with the queen's permission. The thirteen-yearold II. Otto sat for Miskolczy for eight times, during this time Hungarian travelogues and Mihály Fazekas' epic poem, Ludas Matyi were read to him. The Hungarian legitimists were waiting for a portrait of a sad, exiled, proud prince from the painter, however Miskolczy made a real child portrait: „the brown curly hair, the talking liquid, questioning eyes, the sometimes flushed face, the thick red lips were a healthy, lovely children's." Following the birth of the artwork the painter and his model met again almost 70 years later in Baja. On his return from Spain he showed his oil paintings, watercolours, pastels, graphics cards, etchings made in one year, including the exile Archduke Otto von Habsburg's copper engraving, on the 345th exhibition of the National Saloon. The works made in Hispania were noticed by critics and the profession. Beside Karoly Lyka's appreciative words, critic Ödön Mariay published his thoughts in a journal of polite literature: „Ferenc Miskolczy's ... Spanish landscapes are engagingly interesting. The yellow houses suggesting almost burning, molten gold, the red towers and the audacious creations of the southern architecture are splinting into the wild blue skies... Ferenc Miskolczy interprets the romantic beauties of Hispania with soul, mature picturesque skill and empathy. Rooting in Cézanne's painting, constructive, compiling approach, solvent, free forming, and delicate, fauve-like decorativeness characterizes 48
