Arrabona - Múzeumi közlemények 42/2. (Győr, 2004)
Tanulmányok - Dr. Bánhegyi Jób: egy elfelejtett dunántúli festő (Szapudi-Laendler István élete és munkássága)
DR. BANGEGYI JO B __ _ _ _ EGY ELFE LEJTETT DUNÁ NTÚLI FESTŐ 259. Jegenyés tarló 260. Vadregényes Rábapart 261. Vengerka 262. Kertek alatt 263. Tájkép (Dr. Hetyey tul., Kaposvár) 264. Tájkép (Richter Gedeon tul., Budapest) 265. Rábca fürdő 266. Magdolna 267. St. Moritz-i tó 268. Hátakt 269. A Rába Ikervárnál 270. Modell-fej. Tanulmány 271. Kertészleány. Tanulmány 272. Uzsonna-idő 273. Ó-Rába részlet 274. A Rába délután 275. Nyárfás 276. Hanyság 277. Terefere 278. Alvó fiú 279. Tájkép (Schwab Károly tul., Budapest) 280. Tájkép (W. Major Böske tul, Budapest) 281. Tájkép /I/ (Dr. Trümmer Emil tul., Budapest) 282. Tájkép. /II/ (Dr. Trümmer Emil tul., Budapest) 283. Tájkép (Dr. Szalzer tul., Budapest) 284. Önarckép. Festőállvánnyal (L.I-né tul.) A FORGOTTEN PAINTER OF TRANSDANUBIA (The Live and Work of István Szapudi-Laendler) The painter was born of a middle class family in Budapest on 20 December 1899. He enrolled in the College of Fine Arts in 1921 where he was mainly influenced by the academism of Ede Balló and Gyula Rudna/s realism of many trends. He spent his summers in the family's property in Győrsövényháza, he visited the scenes in the Tóköz, the villages, the Keszeg-brook, the birds, the canals, and the romantic world of Hany, and made sketches of them. This was the time when he stared painting the portraits of mainly elderly people in his surroundings. In 1925, he studied the collections in the museums of German towns (Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin, and Munich), he was especially interested in the great artists of the Italian and German Renaissance. In 1926, he spent his time in Austria mainly paying attention to the collections of fine arts in the museums of Vienna. The most important station in István Laendler's aesthetic view, inner personality and artistic richness was his visit to Paris in 1927 where he admired the world famous collections of the Louvre and Luxembourg. He visited the museums of Brussels, Bruges and Munich, too, in the same year. He had exhibitions in Pesten in the National Saloon (1927), in the Art Gallery (1928), and two years later one of his most beautiful work of art, "My Mother's Portrait" was put on an exhibition organised by the National Hungarian Association of Fine Arts in the same gallery. One exhibition came after the other. During the years, his artistic personality and style developed better and better, especially in the field of portraiture. He was versed in contemporary artistic trends; however, he regarded artistic realism to be followed in his scenes, nudes and genre paintings. Szapudi-Laendler was a painter and he never discussed politics, however, he let his opinion known many times that he hated the regime, which treads upon the most sacred principles of humanism and Christianity. During the war their house was always open before refugees. On 16 January 1945, the artist and his sister Erna was ordered by a task-force of Hungarian Nazis in Miskolc to get into a lorry, and they were shot in the back of the neck near Mosonszentmiklós. It belongs to the tragedy of the family that the father Aladár Laendler was taken to Sárvár in 1944, later he vanished without trace, he might have died in a death camp in Germany. 203
