Ervin Bossányi

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Ervin Bossányi: Segeberger fountain figure from 1928, called "Gänseliesel"

Ervin Bossányi (born March 3, 1891 in Regöce , Austria-Hungary , † July 11, 1975 in East Cote , London ) was a Hungarian-British painter and artisan who lived in Lübeck and Hamburg until he emigrated in 1934 , then in England worked.

Life

Bossányi was born in a small village in southern Hungary that is now part of Serbia and attended school in Budapest , where he also received his first artistic training and attended the art academy. Further training at the Académie Julian in Paris . After internment in France during World War I , he came to Lübeck because of connections to Harry Maasz , whose sister Wilma, a pianist, he married there. In Lübeck he found acceptance into artistic circles that encouraged him and was able to perfect his manual skills, especially when it came to working with glass. It was shown at the first exhibitions as early as 1920; Museums and industry ( Villeroy & Boch ) took notice of him. His expressionist frescoes from the Lübeck period in the reading room of the Lübeck city library , albeit impaired by the overpainting as Degenerate Art by the National Socialists , and sculptures and pictures in the Behnhaus have been preserved. A fountain created in 1928 for Bad Segeberg has also been preserved , which is considered one of the main works of the artist's German creative period.

The brick of the painter in the three niches with arched statements on the main porch in Kaseintechnik created frescoes in the stairwell of the building department building was after it know , had not restored. Three groups of figures were represented in this one. In the middle, the master builder handed the “golden key” of the finished house to a couple approaching from the right and received flowers from them in return. On the left, where the diggers and masons were at work, another house was being built.

In 1929 the Hamburg building director Fritz Schumacher brought him to Hamburg . There he created numerous glass windows and ceramic reliefs on public and private buildings. For the crematorium built by Fritz Schumacher in the Ohlsdorf cemetery from 1930 to 1933, Bossányi created the 30 side windows - divided into groups of three - and the two tall windows in the front (in the west) and in the back (in the east). Fritz Schumacher wrote in 1933 about the color scheme: “The individual windows are not based on a motif, only the entirety of the windows has a motif, as it were. While melancholy tones of violet, blue and green prevail on the side of the funeral ceremony, on the side of the hall exit tones of brown and yellow mix in this harmony, which increases the choir of the music gallery to strong, lively colors. It is the impression made by those who turn to life again after the painful celebration. "

In the “Chörlein” to the left of the small organ under the six-part window band at the back, the names “Maler Bossanyi” and “Atelier Kuball” - the Kuball brothers' glass art workshop - are recorded. In a side window in the southeast hides a very small personal lettering that can hardly be read from below: "There is Jo's favorite who always goes unnoticed and finds wonderful fruit far from the sad". These words refer to their son Jo (born 1924) and a pigeon and a quince from the family's quince tree in Hamburg-Hoheneichen.

In the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule in Uetersen , which was built between 1931 and 1937, its remarkable mosaic windows ("Vogelbrut" and "Zur Sonne") have been preserved in the stairwell to this day.

In 1934, after increasing pressure from the National Socialists on him and his family, he emigrated to England. There he was able to build up an artistic existence again, now as a pure glass painter . He created stained glass windows for the University of London (Goldsmith 'Library in the Senate House Library), the Tate Gallery ( The Angel Blesses the Women Washing Clothes ), the Victoria and Albert Museum ( Noli me tangere ), York Minster , the Memorial Chapel for the President Woodrow Wilson in Washington Cathedral and Canterbury Cathedral .

Museum property

estate

His artistic estate is administered by the archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum and his son Jo Bossanyi.

literature

  • É. Bajkay: Bossányi, Ervin . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 13, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22753-1 , p. 198.
  • Dagmar Hayes: Ervin Bossanyi, the splendor of stained glass . Canterbury: Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, 1965.
  • Abram Enns: Lübeck Years of a Painter 1919–1929 - Erwin Bossanyi on his 80th birthday in: Der Wagen , 1972 p. 138 ff. With extensive illustrations.
  • Abram Enns: Art and Citizenship , p. 199 ff, Lübeck 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 .
  • Geoffrey Fouquet: Ervin Bossanyi . Oxford: Ashmolean Museum in association with the Bossanyi Trustees, 1979.
  • Bossányi Ervin 1891 - 1975 emlékkiállítása . Magyar Nemzeti Galéria 1980 április - május. Türr István Múzeum, Baja 1980 június - augusztus / [a kiállítást rendezte ... Szinyei Merse Anna]. Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (National Gallery), 1980.
  • Friedrich Gleiss: Jewish life in Segeberg from 18. – 20. Century , pp. 116-126, Norderstedt 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3215-1 .
  • Heiner Stiebeling: Unknown Bossanyi: 14 watercolors for Paul Claudel's Annunciation , in: Der Wagen , 1984, pp. 81–98 with ill.
  • Jo Bossanyi: Life and work of the artist Ervin Bossanyi from 1920 to 1934 in Northern Germany . Lübeck: Library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1999 (Publications of the Lübeck City Library: Series 3; Vol. 5).
  • Jo Bossanyi & Sarah Brown: Ervin Bossanyi - Vision, Art and Exile , London, 2008
  • Lübecker Zeitung of March 24, 1998: http://stadtzeitung.luebeck.de/suche/artikel/id/1297 .
  • DIE WELT - Hamburg part of March 24, 1998: How Jo Bossanyi tries to prevent his father from dying a second time.

Web links

Commons : Ervin Bossányi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The fountain was destroyed in the night of January 1, 2013 by previously unknown persons: Lübecker Nachrichten  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2013, LN , 2014.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ln-online.de  
  2. ↑ To the new construction of the building authority building. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1928/29, No. 10, edition of February 17, 1929, p. 39.
  3. ↑ Fritz Schumacher Institute - Hamburg State Buildings Volume 3. (see also article in Ohlsdorf magazine No. 116 - 1/2012)
  4. ^ Jo Bossanyi & Sarah Brown, "Ervin Bossanyi - Vision, Art and Exile," p. 38, London, 2008.
  5. ^ Friedrich Gleiss "Jewish life in Segeberg from the 18th to the 20th century: collected essays from two decades with over 100 photos and documents", pages 122 and 125, Books on Demand, 2002
  6. ↑ http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51taOuw2yDL._SS500_.jpg .
personal data
SURNAME Bossányi, Ervin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bossányi, Erwin; Bossányi, Ernoe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter and artisan
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Regöce, southern Hungary (now Riđica , Serbia )
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1975
Place of death East Cote , London