Klemmné Németh Zsuzsa (szerk.): Triznya Mátyás 1922 - 1991 (Szentendre-Zebegény, 2012)

The magic reflected light — which attracts people of other civilizations from all over the world - becomes a sensitive material in the painter’s pictures. This makes the churches, torsos, dome remnants, columns of forums and the city seem alive, the city, which we would know about less without his aquarelles.

He was pleased to present his friends with his paintings and was surprised and happy to see that there were people who even paid for the pictures he had made for his own pleasure. He neither collected and nor kept his works as treasure. As a consequence, his life work got scattered all over the world. From the middle of the 1950’s, he had exhibitions. He was invited to have one-man shows to several European countries besides Italy. In 1973, he was appointed to be a member of Accademia Tiberina of Rome. Collectors were eager to purchase his works.

His first exhibition in Hungary was arranged in the Italian Institute in 1984 though they could not be present at the opening because his wife, Zsuzsa had not got the visa to Hungary and without her, Mátyás was not willing to come. The friends and inquirers were waiting in vain. It was at that time that his cousin, István Triznya, and the director of the Szőnyi Museum of Zebegény, Pál Klemm, first talked about how to arrange a suitable introduction in Hungary - and this idea coincided with Mátyás’ wish.

By 1987, his greatest dream had been fulfilled because in his beloved father-in-law’s house formed into a memorial museum, in Zebegény, a nice exhibition was arranged from his aquarelles, and by the opening, the artist himself arrived in Hungary — though a bit late - after 48 years’ absence.

I will never forget that hot August afternoon in 1986, when I with my husband first entered the famous “Triznyapub”, that is, the Triznya couple’s home in Via Annia Faustina. Zsuzsa was wait-28