Passuth Krisztina – Szücs György – Gosztonyi Ferenc szerk.: Hungarian Fauves from Paris to Nagybánya 1904–1914 (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2006/1)

FROM PARIS TO NAGYBÁNYA - GYÖRGY SZÜCS: Nagybánya, a Regional Centre

The former home of Sándor Teleki at Nagybánya, 1950s dation to the First World War, the artists' colony, and the painters' school within it, went through several difficult periods on the one hand, and did credit to the town on numerous occasions on the other. The two makeshift cabins set up on Jókai hill in the park served their purpose right until 1911, when the new studios were completed, bringing the first, "heroic" phase to an end in the history of the artists' colony. "An open and an enclosed wooden shelter set up on the beautiful hillside served as studios for the students: one for pleasant weather, the other for rainy days. One was used for plein-air work, the other provided light conditions associated with studios, but the choice was more enforced by weather conditions. The models received three or four Forints

—for an entire week's work; this would come to ten to fifteen krajcárs per head," a journalist writing for Jövendő revealed in 1904.

24 By contrast, the stone buildings on the bank of the river Zazar were already the results of rational planning, in connection with which István Réti had previously spelled out, on the pages of the newspaper Nagybánya, the requirements of a modern school building: he covered such areas as the administration, the employment of a caretaker and the acquisition of prints and art books, as well as reproductions to be