Szilasi Ágota, H.: Víz - fény-szín-tér. Stílusvariációk egy technikára. Egri Országos Akvarell Biennálé 1968-2004 a Dobó István Vármúzeum kortárs akvarell gyűjteménye (Eger, 2006)

Sándor ALTORJ AI (1933-1979)

It was as a qualified chemist that he applied to study at the Hungarian College of Art, where he was taught by Gyula Hinczand Jenő Barcsay. He settled in Szigliget, exhibited from 1959 onwards, and worked at a number of art workshops. From the mid-1960s onwards his friendship with Ákos Szabó and Miklós Erdélyi proved important, and it was with them that he took part in avant-garde events. At his 1971 exhibition, Miklós Erdélyi read out his self-parodying Gyagyaizmus manifesztuma (Gaga Manifesto). In his works, the frottage, drip, splash techniques associated with surrealism appear, begetting unusual mythological characters. As he became aware of the seriousness of his illness his works become more acerbic and provocative, leading to the large-scale montages and the reworkings of his earlier works.

Rafael ABRAHAM (1929)

Born in Szombathely, he pursued his studies at the arts faculty of Budapest's Lóránd Eötvös University between 1947 and 1951. From 1957 to 1962 he studied graphics at the Hungarian College of Art under Jenő Barcsay, Gyula Hincz and György Kádár. He worked abroad on several occasions. In his surrealist-influenced lithographs and copperplates the compositions are made up of both natural and artificial elements. Since the 1980s it has been the contraposition of geometric and amorphous shapes in the quest for the right composition that has defined his work. During the 1980s he became interested in the microscopic examination of organic and inorganic materials. He formulated methods to produce compositions based on a number of minutely detailed motifs. The artist uses his work to find answers to questions of an ethical nature.

László BARTH A (1908-1998)

Born in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania). He studied under Ágost Benkhard at the Hungarian College of Art. He is a Munkácsy prize winner, an Artist of Merit and Eminent Artist, as well as a Kossuth prize winner, and a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Art (1992). He spent several years in Italy (1937-38) and France (1946-48), and has subsequently returned to these countries on several occasions. He also worked as a picture restorer, and illustrated in the region of sixty books. His early works occupy the plein-air, picturesque, lyrical world of Károly Ferenczy and the Nagybánya School albeit with a slight added Frenchness. In the 1960s and 1970s, his basic lyrical tone was complemented by additional motifs providing spatial rhythm, a rhythmical formula, a set of symbols and associative colour scheme. His late works occupy a position close to the postmodern tendencies existing in Hungary at the time and a lyrical mode of abstraction. His tonal world, whether pure white, or grey-black, manage to emit a mysterious inner light.

Eger Watercolour Biennial award winner in the 1968 and 1972 József BARTL (1932)

A pupil of Aurél Bernáth, Géza Főnyi and Gyula Pap at the Hungarian College of Art. He lives in Budapest and in one of Hungary's great artistic centres, Szentendre. He is a Munkácsy prize winner. He has been exhibiting since 1959, and

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