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

learnt the technique of aquarelling from István Szőnyi and Jenő Elekfy during the War. His attraction to painting even helped him earn his living in the first and the most difficult period of emigration because at his first work places at Austrian and Italian film studios he painted scenes, moreover, he got commissions for portraits and began to paint the famous buildings of Rome because there was demand for them. At this time he had some interesting changes of letters with his father-in-law, in which he asked for advice concerning some graphic and technical problems. István Szőnyi always explained thoroughly the tricks of painting clouds, drawing portraits, perspective and several other things and supported the explanations with drawings as well. He obviously enjoyed “distant teaching” and told his opinion willingly about the questions aroused. “Matyi, you are great, I liked a lot your picture on the smallpalace. It is homogeneous and fresh, without excesses. Perhaps, it is only the perspective, which is -1 would not say deficient - a little bit uncertain. Now I am going to describe the rule of perspective

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