BÁNÁTI SVERÁK, József
(1897, Temesvár - 1951, Szentendre)



He studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of István Réti between 1917-18 and 1921-16, then he worked as an assistant lecturer of Oszkár Glatz. He joined forces with seven other painters to found the Szentendre Colony of Artist in 1926. In 1928 the Deed of Foundation of the Society of Szentendre Painters was signed in his atelier in Kmetty Street, Budapest. He would work in Szentendre every summer and painted landscapes and townscapes, then in 1937 he moved to Szentendre for good and worked as the art teacher of the Szentendre Grammar School till the end of his life.

He studied fresco painting as a scholar of the Italian government at the Accademia delle Arti of Rome between 1936 and 1937. Following his return to Hungary he completed the sanctuary of the Saint John the Baptist parish church in Szentendre, a work he had started back in 1932 with three other fellow painters. A common feature of not only his frescos but also his oil paintings born in this epoch is that in the background of the Biblical scene a typical motif of the Szentendre townscape or the Szentendre landscape itself appears here and there. He strived to contemporise the message of Biblical scenes he depicted by dressing his figures in the costumes of various ages. His painting art is determined by a decorative arrangement of colours. The style of his early plein air pictures returned in the forties, when he painted more reserved and expressively atmospheric townscapes and landscapes.



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