G. Merva Mária - Öriné Nagy Cecília - Benkő Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Remsey Jenő György (1885-1980) festőművész, író emlékkiállítása (Gödöllő, 2010)

ENGLISH RÉSUMÉ

enabled him to participate in several exhibitions abroad: in Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Leipzig, Nürnberg or Geneva. In addition he received a 3-year-long grant from the Ministry of Education he had to spend in the Gödöllő Artists' Colony. The art-nouveau style Gödöllő Artists' Colony (1901-1920) was founded by Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch and Sándor Nagy. The colony had a many-sided activity in the field of fine and applied arts with the weaving workshop in the centre. Jenő Remsey found his home in this community and the ideology of the artists' colony affected his artistic view. In 1912 he married the drawing teacher Vilma Frey, one of the main members of the weaving workshop, and they had four children. In the First World War he worked as a war painter at the front together with László Mednyánszky and János Vaszary. After the war he got into a desperate situation: some of his fellow artists, among them his younger brother, died and the artists' colony fell apart. In his despair he turned to biblical themes (Angyali üdvözlet (Annunciation), 1928., A csodálatos halfogás (The Miraculous Catch of Fish), Mózes megtalálása (The Finding of Moses). A világ világossága (The Light of the World), 1930. etc.). In 1924 he founded the Spirituális Művészek Szövetsége (Spiritual Artists' Society), which existed until 1944. The society organised exhibitions for his members and in 1982 published a literary and ideological newspaper entitled Fáklya (Torch). He did not get orders so he founded a weaving workshop with his family and sold the products made there for a living. He tried himself in a new area of art, literature. His volumes of poetry were published between the two world wars (A tűzrakó (The Fire-Maker), 1928., A fénytorony (The LightTower), 1940.), his dramas (A Szent Turul (The Saint Turul) 1920., Eszeveszettek