Goda Gertrúd: Ficzere László (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 26. Miskolc, 1987)
LÁSZLÓ FICZERE (1910-1967) László Ficzere's figure, the railwayman painter is still within the living memory of Miskolc. The future of his peculiar geometric pieces are still followed with attention and his paintings still concern those who take him one of them. Making use of the possibilities provided by his homeland, Miskolc he educated himself, his inner resolution encouraged him to gain the right with his honest railway job to be a painter. He was 35 when in a free school established in 1946, he took the first steps to realize his childhood dreams, and only two decades were given to him to study the composition rules, to find his own means of expression and evolving his abilities, to be a successful painter. In 1967 he had his exhibition of his collected paintings in the Chamber of Art Gallery, Budapest. The carreer from the free school to the Art Gallery stands without example in the Hungarian Art. Honest labour and firmness in any circumstances were integral to the manner of life indispensable for him which was marked by his highest awards: Order of Labour, 1955, Art Prize of the Hungarian Trade Union's Council, 1962 The sparkling intellectual movements characterizing the Artists's Colony in Miskolc also had a share in Ficzere's finding himself. He frequented it, and his artistic attitude formed in the debates that took place there. He was already an acknowledged painter when he first got an atelier and even after than he painted and made drawings in the kitchen and the atelier by turns. With the activists' resolution he described his fellow workers, the railwaymen, the builders working in towns and those working in agriculture being mechanized in those days. His theme was almost exclusively the acting and creating human. He composed'his pieces in plane geometric aspect that came from graphics. Since 1950 he regularly exhibited his works on national and all north Hungarian exhibitions, many times he was awarded the golden medal of Federation Internationale des Societés Artistiques et Intellectuelles de Chemioots (FIASAIC). Though he was greatly effected my Munkácsy when he was young, but later he consciously intended to raise the human living in the rhythm of daily work into the higher regions of Art as his appreciated predecessors like Gyula Derkovits and István Dési Huber had done in the Hungarian Art. From among the European anti-war artists first of all Marcell Gromaire's painting effected on his work, but also Bernard Buffet's composition idea showed itself in his pictures. His most outstanding series are: Week-days (reproductive graphics). War and Peace (eggtempera pannos). Miners (egg-tempera easel painting), Dózsa, the peasant leader (eggtempera triptych), Hirosima, 8 30 , August 6, 1945 (copper-plate). His personality embodied the desire hoped since the liberation, that the new social order would provide greater possibilities to the development of the talented and would help the worthy to be acknowledged. Gertrud Goda 95
