Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

Adolf Fényes and his Teachings

The plaque honouring the memory of Adolf Fényes (1867-1945) is on the wall of a school-building at No. 12 of the street named after him in District III. It is not the fault of the sculptor András Kiss Nagy if there is nothing but a name and two dates next to the to the painter’s portrait.

Born in the city of Kecskemét, Adolf Fényes was a founder of the Szolnok Colony of Artists, and as such an outstanding representative of the Plains School of Hungarian painters. At the turn of the century, the city of Szolnok undertook to establish a painter's colony: inspired by the example of the famous painters' Colony of Nagybánya, the city sought to attract artists captivated by the local environment, the Plains landscape and the people living there. The Nagybánya Colony had, by that time, debuted at its first Budapest exhibition (1897).

The twelve studios built on the area where the castle of Szolnok used to be were occupied by their new tenants from late June 1902. From then on, Adolf Fényes, Sándor Bihari, Ferenc Olgyay, Dániel Mihalik and others painted their landscapes and genre pictures here.

■ Adott) Fényei, Museum Interior

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