Tihany (1934)

Gyula Marosán Marosi befriends Ferenc Redő, Tibor Duray and Endre Rozsda at Vilmos Aba Novák's free school, and later László Bényi joins the group. Marosán recalls that they often visited the Japanese Café or Redő's apartment, where they talked a lot about constructivist and surrealist art. 

Marosán travelled around Lake Balaton with Redő and Duray in 1934. The memory of their trip and their friendship was then captured by Duray in a representative triple portrait. Marosán made his first major appearance at the age of just 21, at the Ernst Museum's group exhibition the following year, where he exhibited 66 of his paintings and drawings, including the Tihany painting now on show. The influence of his master, Vilmos Aba Novák, can be seen in this early landscape. It is shown in the technique (tempera) and the eye-catching composition, highlights and colouring (the role of red, colours applied in bands, small details: rooftops, geese, etc.). Duray also painted a landscape of Tihany from almost the same perspective, but with a different artistic approach.