Barki Gergely et al.: Czóbel. A French Hungarian painter - ArtMill publications 5. (Szentendre, 2014)
László Jurecskó: Béla Czóbel in Nagybánya
19. Béla Czóbel: Szigeti, Frim and Ziffer, around 1906. Kaposvár, Rippl-Rónai Museum 25 Plány Ervin: “A nagybányai festők kiállítása [The Nagybánya Painters’ Exhibition]”, Nagybánya és vidéke [Greater Nagybánya], 2 September 1906, 32:35, pp 2-3. A NAGYBÁNYAI I, pp 411-412. 26 Réti István: A nagybányai müvésztelep [The Artist Colony in Nagybánya]. Budapest: Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadóvállalata, 1954, p 69. what a beneficial effect the young painters have on one another. Nevertheless, although the painters influence their environment and receive influences from the environment - which is natural and necessary - we still cannot categorize them as belonging to a definite school (like, for example, those from Worpswede). And this is also an advantage. Each works the way he sees and feels, and they develop further in the direction of their vision and feeling, remaining unique and Hungarian.” In the following sentences, however, this free-thinking attitude is refuted somewhat. “Among the ‘Nagybányans’, an exclusive coterie of Neo-Impressionists has completely shunned the exhibition [...] ”25 Two drawings attest to the solidarity of Nagybánya’s Neos. Frim, Ziffer and Szigeti appear in Czóbel’s work, while Ziffer’s features Frim in a completely similar style (Plates 19 and 20). What also places CzóbePs sole and unequivocal role in question are the paintings executed by Nagybánya artists prior to his arrival - for example, Sándor Ziffer’s Cemetery in Bretagne (plate 23) orTibor Boromisza’s Spring Light (Plate 24). Parallel tendencies can be seen, not only in Vilmos Huszár’s pictures, but also in Dezső Czigány’s paintings completed that year in Nagybánya and displayed at the exhibition - Self-portrait, Double Portrait, and Haystacks (Plate 25). Neither 26 CZÓBEL, A FRENCH HUNGARIAN PAINTER
