Czóbel Múzeum

Béla Czóbel (1883-1976), considered the most prominent Hungarian painter, is a decisive, internationally acknowledged representative of modern Hungarian art. Czóbel lived and worked in the most important places of European modernism - after a visit to Nagybánya and shortly after the Munich Academy he went to Paris. Here he was the Independent's Salon, but he was a founding member of the group of Hungarians in the Netherlands and he also participated in the Brücke Group in Berlin. In 1940 he married a Mária Modok painter with whom he settled in Szentendre. In 1966 he had a studio apartment in Budapest at the Kelenhegyi út Art House, but he still spent his summer in Szentendre. His works are not only found in the most important Hungarian public and private collections, but also in many of the world's largest museums.

Béla Czóbel received the first museum in Hungary for his life. Of course, in Szentendre, where he was admitted to a prostitute, and where he spent most of his time in Paris. In 1975, the Czóbel Museum was opened in the 19th century one-storey building on the church of Szentendre, a Roman Catholic school of puppets. Since then, the building has been heavily depleted and its refurbishment has been necessary, as well as the refurbishment of the exhibition.

In the interior and exterior of the renovated building you can see the Revised Czóbel exhibition. Gergely Barki, curator of the exhibition, chose to chronologically present the scenic life course. From Nagybánya, he follows the art of Czóbel through the Parisian Fauve era through the joining to the Eight, the Years of the Netherlands and the Berlin Period, until he returns to Paris. The years of commuting between Paris and Szentendre, the period leading up to the oeuvre, end the exhibition. Texts explaining orientation in the oeuvre also help. In addition to the paintings, the "reconsidered" permanent exhibition also gives a lot of emphasis to the little-known artwork of Czóbel. For the scientific processing of this part of the oeuvre, the Ferenczy Museum Center is launching an independent program.

At the new Czóbel exhibition, we can see works that have been in storage so far and have been the first time in front of the visitors. For example, a newly-discovered and freshly restored two-sided painting, the Vase chair and the Férfiportre, are novelties.

The Hungarian National Gallery, the Katona József Museum in Kecskemét and the Julian Academy of Paris also borrowed the exhibition based on the hundreds of pieces of the Czóbel collection of the Ferenczy Museum Center.

In addition to the paintings and graphics, visitors can also get acquainted with the lost Czóbel works with an interactive counter. Reports and documentaries from the painter also help to better understand the oeuvre.

It is planned that part of the permanent exhibition will be renewed from time to time.