Horváth János: Kunffy Lajos - A somogytúri Kunffy Emlékmúzeum katalógusa (Kaposvár, 2005)

_ __ Д^^А с^Пу _ _____ his works can be found in the Rippl-Ronai Museum at Kaposvár, where over three hundred oil paintings, pastels and drawings are housed. This collection was selected by the artist himself after havin donated twenty of his major works in 1952, among them/öZ? and The Child's Funeral. Later he continued to make generous donations to the museum. Kunffy was a master of plein-air painting. Yet, he also worked in other styles as well. His early academic style {The Prophet Jeremiah, 1895) was exchanged for a short romantic period inspired by Munkácsy (Job, 1896.) This was followed by the Secessionist period {On the Coast of Brittany, 1898, My Wife in the Palm House, 1903). While searching for ways to express the motifs of his homeland he summarized his artistic experiences in plein-air technique in the spirit of Nagybanya {The Child's Funeral, 1907). His hands often treated the paint brush with the same lightness and virtousity as did the Impressionists, sometimes he reduced to dots his subjects {Congress, 1918, In Front of a Tunis Cafe, 1913), at other times somberly realistic observations created his genre paintings {Noontime Meal of Harvesters, 1921, Life of a Farming Family, 1926). In his last artistic period, light, impressionistic and pastel tones show the painter's wisdom: that with simplicity one can express more {Still Life with Melon, 1930, Garden Path With Shrubs, 1935). Let Kunffy's ars poetica conclude this essay: „I have learned from many but imitated no one. My master was great Nature, in whose beauty I could delight." Kunffy a somogytúri műterem előtt. 1934 körül. 71