Kovács Zita - Bálint Attila : Az Éber-Emlékház. Id. Éber Sándor, ifj. Éber Sándor és Éber Anna művészete - A Bajai Türr István Múzeum kiadványai 28. (Baja, 1999)
occasions, the good friends seated in the "rural baroque" chair of 1767 included János Tornyai and István Nagy, noted representatives of the school of Hungarian Great Plain painting, and actor Kálmán Rózsahegyi. During the conversations, Eber painted their portraits. He also accepted commissions to paint other well-known personalities, ranging from Cultural Minister Count Gábor Bethlen and art historian Lajos Fülep to Pope Pius XI. Members of the Éber family, music and art loving friends and acquaintances, visiting critics often had late night discussions sitting on the black empire furniture above which Éber's experimental impressionist and plein air works are displayed. His landscapes are characterized by definitive lights and shades and dynamic contours. He uses oranges, reds and radiant blues (Mély út, or "Banked-in Road" from 1919; Lány az agyagos parton, or "Girl on the Clayey Shore" from 1919). His paintings represent the landscape of the Great Plain and of the banks of the Danube, sometimes dissolving plein air shapes, sometimes relying on dynamic lines. His self-portraits, which he often painted in every phase of his life, have a very important place in his art. In the first room of the Éber Memorial House, the visitor will encounter his Kucsmás önarckép, or "Self-portrait in Fur Hat", from 1930. It is a picture radiating wisdom and resignation. Éber organized the first exhibition of his collected works in Baja in the fall of 1925. He presented 180 works. The occasion was a real art sensation in the life of the little town. In March 1926, his collected paintings, drawings, portable frescoes and sgraffito sketches were displayed in the National Salon in Budapest. From then on, he participated regularly in the exhibitions of the National Salon. In 1930, Éber was awarded the Grand Prize for his portable fresco entitled Eva. During the fall of the same year, he exhibited in Baja and Pécs with István Csók, Oszkár Glatz, Lipót Hermann, Béla Iványi Grünwald and Gyula Rudnay. Entering the second room of the Éber Memorial House, the visitor may see Sándor Éber, Sr.'s fresco and secco drafts, sketches, and models. These reflect his thorough training in the art as well as his humane artistic approach. Éber was a forever experimenting artist; he tried his hands in almost every art and genre from making dies and paints to making portable frescoes; from sgraffito to one of the monumental decorative genres of modern art: multi-hue stone mosaics; from chalk-making to machine engineering. He was an enthusiastic and skilled organizer of Baja's music life as well. For ten years, he was the conductor of Baja's male voice choir; he was a founding member and later president of the Franz Liszt Society. He performed in the concerts organized by the Society. His review of Béla Bartók's Baja concert in 21 1
