Vezető a Déri Múzeum kiállításaihoz (Debrecen, 1978)

English Summary

HUNGARIAN FINE ARTS OF XX. CENTURY IN MUSEUM DERI At present the great masses of material of fine arts in XX. century are to be seen in gallery on the second floor of central building of museum, in the new Hungarian picture gallery as well as in the cupola hall and in gallery-, first floor corridors in museum Déri. In March 1978 opened the Memorial exhibition of László Holló in the former Hrabéczy villa. From 1980 on the bequest of Medgyessy Ferenc gets an independent museum in the Borsos villa. Shortly opens the independent exhibition of contemporary Hungarian arts, the Gallery of Fine Arts in Kossuth street. All this means that the unified collections will be placed at several points of the town. So the fine arts exhibition of XIX century is not a permanent, closed material like that of old gallery. The first cabinet of the new Hungarian gallery represents the activity of the Szolnok and Nagybánya colony of artists with the pictures of István Csók, Simon Hollósy, Károly Ferenczy, Béla Iványi-Grünwald, Oszkár Glatz, János Thorma and Adolf Fényes. An outstanding and important work of art is Ferenczy's „In park" (Nagybánya garden) wich is one of the typical examples of Hungarian plein-air. Museum Deri houses a representative, staggering warwork from solitary giant of modern Hungarian art, László Mednyánszky. In the second cabinet are to be seen the lowland painters, in the third one the representatives of avantgárdé endeavours in second third of XX. century. Mihály Munkácsy's critical-realistic inheritance was an underground river in art of turn of century and it openly appeared in the so-called lowland painter activity. János Tornyai painted in the neighbourhood of Hódmezővásárhely and József Koszta in that of Szentes, their pictures saturated with dramatic tempers and public-spiritednesses. Similar are to their endeavours László Hollo's and Gyula Rudnay's expressionist pictures, István Nagy's painting of epochal importance manifesting constructive discipline. From the material of lowland artists outstand Hornyai's „Winter country", Koszta's „The end of the village", Hollo's „Girl stripping twig" oil paintings. From Debrecen artists Miklós Káplár's Hortobágy picture „On the way to fair at dawn", the subjects and spirits of Kálmán Gáborjáni's Szabó, István Senyei's Oláh pictures and illustrations and atmosphere are similar to the lowland endeavours. János Vaszary and István Szönyi were many-sided conversant personalities of Hungarian painting and just for this reason they had great role in educating the yout generation. Vaszary's easy of tone, forceful „Seaside" painted with clear paints, Szőnyi's „Zebegény detail" beam the pantheistical harmony of man and landscape. As lstvány Szőnyi, Aurél Bernáth also continued the Nagybánya traditions. Ernő Hrabéczy and László Félegyházi from Debrecen represent the After-Nagybánya endeavours. Aurél Bernáth, Ernő Hrabéczy, József Egri were members of Budapest school, the so-called Gresham-club (or table society). Egry is the painter of really of Lake Bala428