BOROMISZA, Tibor
(1880, Bácsalmás - 1960, Szentendre)



He gave up his career as an army officer and took up painting at Ferenczy in 1903. He carried on with his studies in Rome in 1904, in Paris in 1905 and in Munich in 1906. He was one of the founders of the Balaton art school. He lived as a buddhist monk on Margaret Island, Budapest, in the early 1920s. He spent 1927-28 on Hortobágy to study the lives of shephards. He worked for several newspapers. He founded the journal "Eke" in 1933. Major pictures: "Head Cowboy", "Head Shephard", "Man with Fur-Cap" and "Mother with Child".


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