Ervin Bossányi (3 March 1891 in Rigyica /

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– 11 July 1975 in

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in Greater

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) was a Hungarian artist, who worked mainly in northern

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until his

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in 1934. He then started a new career as a notable

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artist in

Biography

Bossányi was born in a small village in Vojvodina, southern

, and educated in

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. In

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he was interned for five years in

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. After the war he became a notable painter and sculptor in

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and (1929) in

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. A major work from this period is his fountain in

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. 1934 he left

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for

. Here he specialized with remarkable success in

. He made stained glass windows for the

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(Goldsmiths Library in the

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(''"The Angel Blesses the Women Washing the Clothes"''), the

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(''"Noli me tangere"''), as well as

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for the

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, the memorial chapel for President

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and

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. He also created the windows in the chapel at

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, and the stained glass windows at

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in London.''Underground Architecture''; by: David Lawrence. Harrow: Capital Transport, 1994; p, 132 The latter depict the coats of arms of Uxbridge U.D.C. and of the counties of Middlesex and Buckinghamshire. Fitted shortly after the station opened in 1938 they were removed for safe-keeping during World War 2 and reinstated in 1949.

Museums

* The ''Stained Glass Museum'' at

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owns two windows Bossanyi made in his last year in Hamburg and which he took with him into emigration. *

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, Lübeck - paintings

Footnotes

References

* Dagmar Hayes: ''Ervin Bossanyi, the splendour of stained glass''. Canterbury: Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, 1965. * Abram Enns: ''Lübecker Jahre eines Malers 1919-1929 - Erwin Bossanyi zum 80. Geburtstag'' in:

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1972 S.138 ff mit umfangreichen Abbildungen * Abram Enns: ''Kunst und Bürgertum'', S. 199 ff, Lübeck 1978, * 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.

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Múzeum, Baja 1980 június - augusztus / kiállítást rendezte ... Szinyei Merse Anna Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (National Gallery), 1980. * Friedrich Gleiss: ''Jüdisches Leben in Segeberg vom 18.-20. Jahrhundert'', S. 116-126, Norderstedt 2002, * Heiner Stiebeling: ''Unbekannter Bossanyi: 14 Aquarelle zu

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s Verkündigung'', in:

1984, S. 81-98 mit Abb. * Jo Bossanyi: ''Leben und Arbeit des Künstlers Ervin Bossanyi von 1920 bis 1934 in Norddeutschland''. Lübeck: Bibliothek der Hansestadt Lübeck 1999 (Veröffentlichungen der Stadtbibliothek Lübeck: Reihe 3; Bd. 5) *

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Vol. XIII, 1996, Seite 198

External links

Bossanyi at the Tate Gallery London

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bossanyi, Ervin 1891 births 1975 deaths British stained glass artists and manufacturers People associated with the University of London 20th-century Hungarian painters 20th-century Hungarian male artists 20th-century Hungarian sculptors Académie Julian alumni Hungarian male painters