Gopcsa Katalin (szerk.): Egry (Budapest, 2005)

CHRONOLOGY 1883 born at Újlak, Zala County, on March 15. 1914 1889-1890: moves to Budapest with parents. 1915 1897-1898: drops out of eighth grade. Apprenticed at the studio of the decorative painter Emil Fellegi. 1916 Around 1900: apprenticed to the painter János Korcsek, former pupil of Károly Lötz. 1901 two of his portraits exhibited at the National Salon in Budapest. 1903 meets Károly Lyka, who becomes his mentor. Drawings 1918 published in Művészet. 1904 on: his works exhibited annually at the Kunsthalle and National Salon. 1904 travels in Transylvania (Gyula, Komárváros, Garabonc); in 1922 the fall spends a few weeks in Munich, from where he returns sick. 1923 1905 in November travels to Paris with Károly Lyka'

s help and enrolls at the Julian Academy; visits museums, paints on 1924 the banks of the Seine and in the Bois de Boulogne. 1906 in December returns home at the invitation of Pál Szinyei Merse and Károly Ferenczy who offer him a scholarship. 1925 He enrolls at the School of Ornamental Design as Ferenczy's student. 1926 1907 in April his painting Night Shelter, exhibited at the Műcsarnok in Budapest, is awarded a 1000-crown 1927 scholarship. In July he loses the scholarship for submitting a painting at the Könyves Kálmán Salon Youth exhibition 1928 without the academy's permission. 1908 leaves academy. In spring, his Self-Portrait, shown at the spring exhibition of the Museum of Fine Art, is purchased. 1909 in December, first one-man show at the Artists House. 1911 spends several months in Bruges and environs, Belgium. 1929 1912 exhibition at Artists House. His painting Symbol awarded 1930 Szinyei Prize. Travels to Magócs, Garabonc, Hódmezővásárhely, Csíkszentgyörgy, Csíkmindszent, Transylvania. Group show at Artists House. soujourns for a while at Ungvár. enlists in the infantry. Meets Sass Brunner at Nagykanizsa. Contracts pneumonia. in spring convalesces at the Badacsony military hospital. Meets his future wife, Juliska Pauler, a volunteer nurse; in autumn, during his convalescent leave, he teaches at the Free Art Academy along with Károly Kernstok, József Rippl-Rónai, and Márk Vedres discharged from army; in July marries Juliska Pauler, recently divorced from Colonel Vizkelety. They live at Keszthely and summer at his wife's wine press house at Badacsony, together with his widowed mother at the Balaton Society's exhibition at the National Salon he exhibits his new style Balaton paintings several prominent critics (Ernő Kállai, Lajos Fülep, Artúr Elek) review his retrospective exhibition at the Belvedere becomes member of the recently formed new association of visual artists (KUT) and exhibits annually at their shows at the Ernst Museum, National Salon and Kunsthalle works at Szentendre along with Tibor Boromissza, Viktor Erdei, Bertalan Kubinyi, Dezső Tipary and Bálint Sárospataky retrospective at Galerie Gurlitt in Berlin, then at Salon Richter in Dresden pictures exhibited in Hamburg at the Hungarian Landscape show; becomes a member of KUT board of directors because of financial difficulties the couple sell their Keszthely house and move to the villa in Badacsony. Egry makes regular sales of his paintings, chiefly to collector friends. Two-man show with Ferenc Medgyessy at Tamás Gallery spends several weeks at Tátrafüred on: winters in a rented apartment in Budapest. Friends' help enables the couple to spend several months in Italy: Sicily (Taormina), Naples, Pompei, Rome. Exhibition at Tamás Gallery.