Barki Gergely et al.: Czóbel. A French Hungarian painter - ArtMill publications 5. (Szentendre, 2014)

László Jurecskó: Béla Czóbel in Nagybánya

LÁSZLÓ JURECSKO

BÉLA CZÓBEL

IN NAGYBÁNYA

1. Béla Czóbel: Study of Man’s Head and Hands, 1902. Private collection,

NOT ON EXHIBITION

1 [n.a.]: “Müvésziskola Nagybányán [Art School in Nagybánya]”, Budapesti Napló [Budapest Journal], 14 March 1902, 72:9. A NAGYBÁNYAI I, p 302.

2 [n.a.]: “A nagybányai festők [Painters of Nagybánya]”, Nagybánya and vidéke [Greater Nagybánya], 30 March 1902, 28:13, p 2. A Nagybányai I, p 305.

As a young man preparing for his secondary school final exams, he could have read the following item in the Budapest Journal in the spring of 1902:

“The painters who have settled in Nagybánya hereby announce that the school run by Hollósy will not return to Nagybánya. Members of the artist colony - Károly Ferenczy, Béla Grünwald, István Réti and János Thorma - have decided to open an art school in Nagybánya, so it will retain its artistic significance, for which it is famous throughout the country.”1 Those from Nagybánya were also informed in a supplement that the free painting school would open 1 May, and “pupils will pay no tuition, they will only bear the cost of models, and they will have free choice of an instructor.”2

CZÓBEL, A FRENCH HUNGARIAN PAINTER

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