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Studia Comitatensia 2014 - Yearbook of the Ferenczy Museum - New Series 1 - English Summaries Beatrix Basics Vilmos Csaba Perlrott’s Works in the Collection of the Ferenczy Museum, Szentendre Csaba Vilmos Perlrott (1880-1955) is among the outstanding artists of twentieth-century Hungarian painting. Almost all of the biographic works start with this statement, adding the importance of the painter’s innovative character. The majority of his works are in Hungarian public collections, many of them all around the countryside, and there is an urgent need to stage them in a collective exhibition. Some of the works are, however, in private collections, and the change of the ownership cannot be always easily traced. A collective exhibition of Perlrott’s works would be organized in 2015 in the Ferenczy Museum, with a catalogue to be published summing up the works and discussing his art in different studies. This is a breakthrough event, as the last major display was in 2005 in his home town, Békéscsaba. Perlrott was born there, but he finished his studies in Budapest. The artists’ colony of Nagybánya (today Baia Mare, Romania) was a place of basic importance in his early career. As a pupil of Béla Iványi Grünwald, he was helped with a scholarship to travel to Paris, where he got acquainted with the outstanding artists of the period. Henri Matisse had a lasting influence on him, and leaving the Julian Academy in the autumn of 1906, he was a founder of the Matisse School in Rue de Sévres. In 1907 seven of his works were displayed together with those of the group of the Fauves. From Paris he returned to Nagybánya, but in 1911 he was on the road again, since as a result of another scholarship he went to Spain, where it was El Greco, whose influence was considerable on him. The mid-war period was, in general, the time for travelling all around Europe. After his several other journeys returning Hungary, a new artists’ colony was the scene of his life in the town of Kecskemét, under the leadership of his former master, Béla Iványi Grünwald. In 1919 he married Margit Gräber, his painter companion from Nagybánya. Five years later he became the member of the group of KUT (New Society of Artists), and from 1949 onwards he was the member of the Szentendre Painters’ Society. The last two decades of his life were closely connected to the latter picturesque town and the artists working there. The next year exhibition is a long waited event based on the double anniversary of the artist, and in order to facilitate it, the complete catalogue of his works preserved in the collection of the Ferenczy Museum was put together and was published together with a selection of pictures. 271
