Ervin Bossanyi at Canterbury Cathedral (2) - geograph

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 stained glass artist in

Biography

Bossányi was born in a small village in 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 Bad Segeberg. 1934 he left

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for

. Here he specialized with remarkable success in stained glass. 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 Canterbury Cathedral. He also created the windows in the chapel at

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, and the stained glass window at

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in London.

Museums

* The ''Stained Glass Museum'' at Ely Cathedral 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

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: Der Wagen 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. Türr István 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: Der Wagen 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

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References

{{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