BOLMÁNYI, Ferenc
(1909, Léva - 1990, Budapest)



Painter, merited artist (1978). Following his completion of secondary school studies in Békéscsaba he studied sculpture from Jószef Rónai and painting from Gusztáv Mannheimer at the Academy of Fine Arts. As he was unable to pay for his tuition, he was expelled from the Academy. He carried on developing his skills by studying arts on his own. He made study trips to Yugoslavia, Italy, Munich, Vienna and worked in these places to finance his trips. Following his return in 1927 he rented a studio in Szentendre and painted in the company of the Szentendre painters (Jenő Paizs Goebel, Lajos Vajda, Imre Ámos, Margit Anna, Dezső Korniss, Béla Czóbel) and others. This is where he painted the pictures of the 'Fényváros' (Light City) cycle while the paintings of the 'Mr. Robin and Company' cycle were created in the town of Nagymaros and then in Budapest.

He had exhibitions first in the National Salon in 1928, and then in Eszék (Osijek, Croatia) in 1930, and in the Glaspalast of Vienna in 1933. His artworks were awarded the Austrian government's silver medal. He organised a comprehensive exhibition of his artworks in 1935 in the Frankel Salon, and then in the Tamás Gallery in 1936. In 1947 the Free Union of Artists organised an exhibition of his artworks in the former Budapest Art Gallery. He ran a Free School of Art in Nagymaros from 1945. In 1959 and 1966 he exhibited in the Fényes Adolf Hall, while his collective exhibition was held in the Ernst Museum in 1937. His painting art was characterised by non-figurativeness and an emotional force that sought to express everything through the use of colours.



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