Ervin Bossányi

Ervin Bossányi ( born March 3 1891 in Regöce in southern Hungary (today Riđica, Serbia); † July 11, 1975 in East Cote ( London) in England) was a Hungarian painter and craftsman, and up to emigrate in 1934, especially in Lübeck Hamburg, then worked in England.

Life

Bossányi was born in a small village now belonging to Serbia and southern Hungary attended school in Budapest, where he also received his first artistic training and the Academy of Art visited. Further education at the Académie Julian in Paris. After internment in France in the 1st World War he came to Lübeck, whose sister Wilma, a pianist, he also married there because of connections to Harry Maasz. In Lübeck, he found refuge in artistic circles which promoted it, and was able to perfect his craft skills, especially as the work was concerned with glass. In 1920 he was shown on the first exhibitions; Museums and Industry ( Villeroy und Boch ) were aware of him. From the time of Lübeck his expressionist frescoes in the reading room of the Lübeck City Library, although affected by the overpainting as degenerate art by the Nazis, and sculptures and paintings are preserved in Behnhaus. Get has a 1928 Bad Segeberg created fountain, which is considered one of the masterpieces of German creative period of the artist.

1929 brought him the Hamburg Planning Director Fritz Schumacher to Hamburg. There he created numerous stained glass windows and ceramic reliefs on public and private buildings. For that of 1930 - 1933 crematorium built by Fritz Schumacher in the cemetery Ohlsdorf Bossanyi created the 30 page window - split into groups of three - and the two high windows in front ( to the west) and rear ( to the east). For the coloring Fritz Schumacher in 1933 wrote " The individual windows is based on no motive, only the totality of the window has, as a motive. Whereas according to the side of the funeral rule moody tones of violet, blue and green mix to the side of the Hall output tones of brown and yellow in this harmony that increase the Chörlein the music gallery to strong life-like colors. It is the impression of having that turns back to life after the painful ceremony. " (see also article in Ohlsdorf Magazine # 116 - 1/ 2012)

The glass art workshop of Gebr Kuball - - ​​In the " oriel " to the left of the small organ below the rear window six-part band " painter Bossanyi " and "Atelier Kuball " are the names recorded. In a side window in the southeast conceals very small and below to read hardly a personal inscription "There is Jo's favorite unnoticed always wonderful fruits remote place of all who mourn ." These words refer to the son of Jo (born in 1924) and a dove and a quince quince tree from the family in Hamburg- Hoheneichen

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

Possession of the museum

• Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England

Discount

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