Klemmné Németh Zsuzsa (szerk.): Triznya Mátyás 1922 - 1991 (Szentendre-Zebegény, 2012)

An aquarellist from Rome

It is a well-known fact that the real home of aquarelles is England. The permanent humidity of air, mist and fog wash away hard and definite contours, colours gain fine shades. Looking at an English landscape or towns we can feel like watching an aquarelle. At a Mediterranean climate, in the immense and permanent light, colours seem to vanish, view is built of mainly plastic elements, contours are hard, aquarelle paper dries quickly, the whole situation is against water colouring. However, Mátyás Triznya became an aquarellist in Rome. The character of his radiating pictures is determined by the place where he spent most of his life. Rome can still be regarded as one of the spiritual centres of Europe. This place attracts and with its emanation enriches all the people who approach open-minded the Eternal City.

Escaping from Hungary in 1949, after a short detour in Graz, the Triznya-couple - with an instinctive attraction — got to Rome. However luring the chances seemed over the sea, they settled in Rome. Mátyás’ painterly career, which started at the age of 5 according to family legends and continued after the grammar school studies though the parents had rather different plans about their son’s future, evolved there. He enrolled in secret for the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Lajos Nándor Varga and got acquainted with Zsuzsa, the daughter of István Szőnyi, painter, whom he had held in high respect. From that time on, his fate was sealed. He

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