Ván Hajnalka (szerk.): Bepillantás a kintbe. Kolozsváry-Stupler Éva művészete - Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum Közleményei 9. (Békéscsaba, 2017)
Ván Hajnalka: Bepillatnás a kintbe
Introduction 23 Born as Eva Stein in Budapest, Kolosvary-Stupler Eva after finishing her secondary school art studies in 1956 immigrated to Switzerland, and then six years later to the United States of America with her husband the graphic artist Paul Kolosvary, who has roots in Békéscsaba. Paul Kolosvary’s father was the multi-sided artist Sándor Kolozsváry, his uncle was Andor Tevan, the owner of the renowned and long-traditioned Tevan Printing and Publishing Company, his aunt was Margit Tevan goldsmith artist and his cousin was István Engel Tevan graphic artist. Furthermore, the painter, Sigismund Kolos-Vary, becoming well-known in the history of art as he was called in France, was also his uncle who moved abroad similarly to them. In 2006, the Kolozsváry and Tevan families made a noble act towards the town of Békéscsaba donating pieces from the works of artists in these families. At first, the exhibition was opened in 2007 temporarily, in 2012 in a permanent form in Jankay Collection and Contemporary Gallery, and from 2013 merging into Munkácsy Mihály Museum, given a separate name and character, it could be visited in the Collection of Jankay- Kolozsvary-Tevan in an extended form. In these exhibitions, her assemblage was already on display, and this method, not widely used by Flungarian artists, has become a characteristic way of expression over the decades in the art of Eva Kolosvary-Stupler. At that time we could represent this form of art by solely one piece of work H30, donated to us, which was not able to reveal the genre, the relation between artist and genre, or her talent. In 2014, through a subsidy we succeeded in purchasing three other works which were then supplemented by seven pieces of art the artist herself donated in order to increase the collection. In 2017, at the age of eighty, as an imprint of Eva Kolosvary-Stupler in the Hungarian art, we present, due to another donation of the artist, her thirty-seven works in the exhibition taking place in Munkácsy Mihály Museum, Békéscsaba and in the catalogue where you can find examples from the early works to the latest ones, thus, gaining a more complete image of the artist and her works. Hajnalka Ván art historian curator of the exhibition
