E. Csorba Csilla: A kamera poétája. Adré Kertész-fotó a Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum gyűjteményeiből (Budapest, 2019)

E. Csorba Csilla: A kamera poétája. André Kertész fotói a Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum gyűjteményeiben / Csilla E. Csorba: The Poet of the Camera Photographs by André Kertész in the Collections of the Petőfi Literary Museum

Ady’s perspective. "Paris, the most human of all cities”. It was through them that he got closer to the French, encountered the art of Rodin and Carriére, and the young Hungarian painters who lived in Paris (Károly Kernstok and Béla Czóbel).

ISMERETLEN / UNKNOWN: ADY ENDRE, BÖLÖNI GYÖRGY, ADY LAJOS, BÖLÖNINÉ ITÓKA, STEINFELD NÁNDOR, BUDAPEST, 1914 PIM, F.2015.1.

Ady’s cult in Paris

After World War I the poet’s name attracted Hungarian emigrants who flooded Paris for political and existential reasons or to study, as well as those who visited the French capital for various lengths of time. Thus during the 1920s and 1930s hardly a year passed without any Ady commemoration, On the occasion of Ady’s commemoration announced by the Parisian Hungarian Academy in 1932, a statue of Ady by Imre Huszár was unveiled in the ceremonial hall of the Hungarian House.21

György Bölöni, who lived as an émigré in Paris between 1923 and 1945, not only remained Ady’s loyal friend during his life but also after his death, reviving and keeping alive the cult of the poet among fellow émigrés in Paris. He and his wife Ottilia Márkus (Otilia Marchişiu) were active members (and possibly founders) of the Endre Ady Cultural Society, which regularly held matinéé

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