Hann Ferenc: Paulovics. Kántor Lajos és Kocsis István írásaival (A PMMI kiadványai. Pest Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága – Ferenczy Múzeum, Szentendre, 2008)
Hann Ferenc - The artist's career: an overview
The artist's career: an overview FERENC HANN László Paulovics was born in Szatmárnémeti (Satu Mare, in Romania), in the region historically called Partium, on August 15, 1937. He is a painter, graphic artist and theatre stage designer who achieved enduring "esuIts in other art fields as well. His parents were textile merchants, and the family, especially the male branch, included many artisans, respectable citizens of the small town by the bank of the Szamos, inhabited mainly by Hungarians at that time. As Paulovics remarked in his notes, his childhood had been joyful and serene. Since his family lived near the river, he often went there to collect flowers and outterflies as well as to draw. It is possible that these juvenile attempts forecasted the hope of an art career. The family was not particularly attracted by the arts, although László's elder sister, Erzsébet became a music teacher. Still, there was an artist among the distant relatives, Endre Litteczky, painter and drawing teacher (Szatmárnémeti, 1880-Szatmárnémeti, 1953), who studied and worked in Nagybánya (Baia Mare). Litteczky is renowned in Hungarian art history not primari y for his fair but modest work in Hungarian art history, but for having discovered a talented young peasant boy, János Pirk, who had become an orphan and from the Felvidék region (the historical Upper Hungary, today in Slovakia) got to his grandparents living in Szatmár. Litteczky took him to Nagybánya, and had him educated by local masters. With help from Litteczky, Pirk became an important member of the second generation of Nagybánya painters. After World War II, he moved to Gödöllő, and then to Szentendre (both in Hungary), but he is still noted as the painter most faithful to Nagybánya traditions. The saturation bombings of September 1944 must have been a tragic experience for László aged seven. The family took shelter in the nearby village of Szatmárhegy. They returned after the arrival of the Soviet army, and found their home plundered and damaged. The family business was soon ~j 'nationalized' (i. e. confiscated). As a result, Paulovics's father learned welding and got a job in the 'Union' machine factory. Fülek mindenhol vannak? -1971 - tus-20 X 17 cm
