A Herman Ottó Múzeum évkönyve 47. (2008)

Martos Gábor: Egy elfeledett miskolci festőnő. 160 éve született Bizony Ákosné Hosszúfalussy Róza (1848-1932)

Szendrei János-Szentiványi Gyula (szerk.) 1913 A Magyar Képzőművészek Lexikona. Budapest Zádor Anna-Genthon István (főszerk.) 1965 Művészeti Lexikon. I. köt. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó A FORGOTTEN PAINTRESS FROM MISKOLC Róza Hosszúfalussy (Mrs Ákos Bizony) (1848-1932) Very little is known about the life of Róza Hosszúfalussy and very few of her doubtless many paintings have survived. Still, we know from contemporary press articles that she regularly exhibited her works, mostly in Miskolc, and that her paintings had been displayed in Budapest too on two occasions: a female portrait was accepted by the jurors for the 1899-1900 winter exhibition of the National Art Society, and sixty-one paintings - landscapes, still lifes, portraits, nudes - were displayed at the fiftieth exhibition of the National Saloon in 1926. She was 78 years old at this time - but we know that she began painting in the early 1890s, when she was in her forties. (She had been married for over a decade, when she took up painting. Her husband, Ákos Bizony, was a lawyer, who acted as president of the Miskolc Bar Association for two decades, from 1902 until his death. He was a Member of Parliament between 1901 and 1918. A street has been named after him in Miskolc.) "She expanded her knowledge acquired through unfailing diligence during her study trips to Italy, Munich and Paris," as János Szendrei noted in his book, History of Miskolc, and she undoubtedly received professional help from the renowned painters she worked together with in her studio, among them Dezső Mellinger (1892-1960) and Árpád Kemenszky (1870-1945), who had stayed at the Nagybánya Art Colony several times. Together with her husband, she played an important role in the organisation of the art scene in Miskolc: the art school founded in 1919 in her studio became the basis of the Miskolc Art Colony founded in 1921, and she played an active role in the creation of the Miskolc Art Society in 1926 and the Art Section of the Lévay József Public Education Society. She submitted her paintings to all the local exhibitions staged by these organisations. In her will, she bequeathed her art collection to the Miskolc museum. The museum's art collection includes two of her paintings, one of which was displayed in 1970 at a local exhibition. Róza Hosszúfalussy did not have any direct descendants; her eight currently known paintings were preserved by her sibling's great-grandchildren. While her artistic talent cannot be unequivocally judged based on these paintings alone, her other activities, and especially her role in the town's art life, were all the more important, earning her a place in the town annals. Gábor Martos