Keserü Katalin: Toroczkai Wigand Ede (Gödöllő, 2008)
1907 Forms friendship with the Finnish painter, Akseli Gallen-Kallela. His series of graphics entitled Az én falum (My village) is published by Művészet. Takes part with three interiors in the spring 1907 exhibition of the Hungarian Applied Arts Association, which became famous as an exhibition of interiors, and receives the Association's prize for them. Spends lengthy periods during the year in the Transylvanian regions of Kalotaszeg and the Szeklerland and finally moves to Tirgu Mures. 1907-15 Designs community centres and farm buildings within the framework of the Szekler project, elementary schools for the Ministry of Education and Religion programme and school churches in the Szeklerland in vernacular style, modern family houses and villas in Tirgu Muresand Cluj-Napocain modern style. 1908 Marries teacher Margit Kégl on September 7 t h. They travel to Vienna. 1909 Having drawn up a plan for the Maros-Torda county hall with Károly Kós and won second prize, they bought a plot of land together at Sztána in Kalotaszeg. 1910 In order to popularize the artistic craft industry, the artists and craftsmen press for the establishment of an applied artists' colony with the mayor of Tirgu Mures, which he would have been led by Toroczkai. Magyar Iparművészet publishes a series of his drawings under the title Hajdonába, régös-régen (In Time of Yore, in the Dim and Distant Past), in which imagined Attila's palace and reconstructed it on the basis of Transylvanian log wall houses and interiors. Wins first prize in the Applied Arts Association competition for the furnishing of a worker's flat. His article A ház (The house) appears in Magyar Iparművészet. The headquarters of the Szeklerland Chamber of Industry and Commerce is constructed in Tirgu Mures. 1911 Plan for the furnishing of the director's and teachers' rooms and library at the Higher Commercial College in Tirgu Mures. Building of János Vaszary's studio house in Tata. 1911-12 Plans for the Palace of Culture library and Hall of Mirrors in Tirgu Mures. 1912 Wins the state Applied Arts Grand Gold medal and carries out his plan for a journey in Eastern and Northern Europe with the following route: Berlin Copenhagen - Oslo (Christiania) - Stockholm - Helsinki(Helsingfors) - Saint Petersburg - Moscow - Warsaw - Cracow - Vienna. The couple move into their flat converted and arranged in the timber-framed, gabled, little house-like attic of the building belonging to Sándor Radó, chief architect of Tirgu Mures. 1912-13 The 'Prince Csaba' carpet. Construction of stained glass windows from In Time of Yore, in the Dim and Distant Past at Miksa Róth's workshop. 1914 His book Négyféle mívekről (On four kinds of art work)
