Török Katalin - Jurcskó László: Boromisza Tibor 1880 - 1960 (Szentendre, 2012)
Jurecskó László: Boromisza Tibor festészete 1904 és 1918 között
JURECSKÓ LÁSZLÓ THE PAINTING OF TIBOR BOROMISZA BETWEEN 1904-1918 Tibor Boromisza was for a long time a forgotten and not suitably esteemed figure of modern Hungarian painting. It was Ottó Mezey, who in his book published in 1983 drew the attention to the early works of the artist and started the process leading to a revaluation of the art of Nagybánya artists' colony. The real breakthrough was however the Nagybánya exhibition of MissionArt Gallery organized in 1992, and the book published then. This was continued and partly finished with the exhibition organized in Miskolc in 1995 displaying the early period of Boromisza and the volume written by me the next year. From this time on it was sure that Boromisza's works could not be left out from any of the exhibitions or volumes dealing with the beginnings of modern Hungarian painting. Starting with the 1996 exhibition in the Hungarian National Gallery, through the exhibitions in Vienna, Budapest and St. Petersburg to the 2006 exhibition of the Hungarian Fauve in Budapest and France ending with the 2009 display in the Művészház this became dear. The revaluation of Boromisza's painting could be made when the major works of his early period were found, in Hungarian and foreign private collections. Works rediscovered in the last few years proved that he was not just a painter with two works (Bathers, View of Nagybánya), but he was actually a defining personality of the period. Through Károly Ferenczy's Budapest private school in Nagybánya he easily got over his early plein-air works, after a short break of Rome, Munich and Paris he reached the so called group of Neos reforming the art of Nagyabánya in 1906. By 1908 he found his own style greatly helped by the Kőröshegy colony and the view of lake Balaton influencing his art. His style was ever changing, and when feeling to find the answer to his questions he went on. Thus from the beginnings of building works by paint patches, using bright colours he gets to the construction of compositions by movement and patches of light, paintings investigating characteristics of the atmosphere and weather. He was staying at the colony between 1904 and 1914. He was a great help of the colony's reform both with his art and social activity. Boromisza is the best example of the art of Nagybánya - after representing its landscape he turned towards the town itself, where not only the best known details were represented by him but the busy life of its inhabitants, the atmosphere of the markets, the world of people working in the mines, fields, places. Beside Nagybánya he was present from 1907 on in the artistic life of Budapest. 1 le played an important role in the life of Művészház, one of the major institutions of modern Hungarian painting. Boromisza is an outstanding figure of his age not only as a result of his painting, but also his theoretical knowledge, his writings on social issues. BOROMISZA TIBOR 29
