Török Katalin - Jurcskó László: Boromisza Tibor 1880 - 1960 (Szentendre, 2012)
Török Katalin: Boromisza Tibor munkássága 1919 és 1953 között
KATALIN TOROK THE ACTIVITY OF TIBOR BOROMISZA BETWEEN 1919-1953 The study is a summary of the result of research work of the activity of Tibor Boromisza from 1918 till 1960. The detailed work is a novelty in the research history, still it is not a monography. Many questions are still open at present, research work is in continuation. The history of Boromisza's activity asfter World War I is presented according to the scenes of his life. At this stage of the research it was necessary to follow this principle to make amendments among incorrect facts. The four years (1919-1922) of the exitential loss following the war and finding himself again, rebuilding his artistic career are connected with Dunavecse and Margaret Island. In both places he could lead a secluded life, away from politics and dealing only with the most intersting thing for him in painting at that time: a new approach to rendering light. The next scene of his life and career was the small town by the river Danube, Szentendre. The almost five years spent there (1922-1927) might be considered as the peak of his career from the point of his age and the versatility and results of his activity. In this period did he make a research in the Nyitra region concerning the ancient remains of Hungarian folk art. By that time he was a devoted follower of the teaching of Buddhism. As a result of his disillusionment in western culture his attention was turned to the East, and the literary and artistic development climaxed in Szentendre. In each season he painted the natural surroundings of the town with people working there: woodcutters, peasants, fishermen. A manuscript of several volumes was born during this period, he remarried, built a house and finished his memories on his childhood and family. The fruitful period was stopped by the end of his marriage. The following year he continued his activity at the Hortobágy, in the Great Hungarian Plain. The three years spent there were devoted to the investigation of the ancient nomad shepherd-culture preserving the Asian origins. He painted around sixty portraits of the anthropologically interesting typical shepherds. He was interested in two pictorial problems during his whole cereer - one was the light, with the rays of sun, the material of the sky and air, the other was movement, the representations of mass scenes. Both subjects could be studied at the Hortobágy and provided a large number of paintings. The short but rather fruitful period at the Hortobágy was followed by the fifteen years spent in the capital, Budapest (1930-1945). After his stay in Nagybánya, he was most active at that time. He founded the Society of Hungarian painters and was managing it for fifteen years wandering around the traditional regions of the country to make an artistic documentation of the special values and characteristics of rural life serving as a basis for a new art that could be integrated into European culture preserving its national character. BOROMISZA TIBOR 239
