Márton Faragó – The First Educated Painter of Jewish Origin from Lendava, documentary exhibition by Dr Albert Halász

Márton Faragó was born in 1880 in Dolnja Lendava (today’s Lendava) as Mór Freyer. He was the youngest of eight children in the family of a Jewish merchant. Already at a young age, Marci, as he was called, showed a talent for painting, so that after schooling in his hometown, in 1895 he enrolled at the State Royal School of Applied Arts in Budapest, where he graduated with honours in 1900 at the Department of decorative painting. Later he studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, and he also trained with one of the most prominent painters at the time, Simon Hollósy, the founder of several painting schools (Nagybánya/Baia Mare, Técső/Tyachiv, Munich). At Hollósy’s painting camp in Tecso, Faragó is said to have met the famous painter Ferenc Sass Brunner, with whom they became friends and in 1908 founded their first painting school in Szombathely. Later, painting schools – which were not only intended for the development of painting skills, but also for the promotion of artistic creation and art in general – were also established in some other places. Dr Albert Halász, associate of the local history department of the Provincial and Study Library Murska Sobota.

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Márton Faragó – prvi izobraženi slikar judovskega porekla iz Lendave, dokumentarna razstava avtorja dr. Alberta Halásza

Márton Faragó je bil rojen leta 1880 v Dolnji Lendavi (današnja Lendava) kot Mór Freyer. Bil je najmlajši od osmih otrok v družini judovskega trgovca. Že v mladih letih je Marci, kot so ga klicali, pokazal nadarjenost za slikanje, tako da se je po šolanju v domačem kraju leta 1895 vpisal v Državno kraljevo šolo za uporabno umetnost v Budimpešti in leta 1900 z odliko končal študij na Oddelku za dekorativno slikarstvo. Kasneje je študiral še na Madžarski univerzi likovnih umetnosti v Budimpešti, izpopolnjeval pa se je tudi pri Simonu Hollósyju, enem tedaj najvidnejših slikarskih mojstrov in ustanovitelju več slikarskih šol (Nagybánya/Baia Mare, Técső/Tyachiv, München). Na Hollósyjevem slikarskem taboru v Tecsoju naj bi spoznal znamenitega slikarja Ferenca Sassa Brunnerja, s katerim sta se spoprijateljila in leta 1908 ustanovila svojo prvo slikarsko šolo v Szombathelyu. Pozneje sta slikarske šole ustanovila tudi v nekaterih drugih krajih, njune šole pa niso bile namenjene zgolj razvijanju slikarskih veščin, temveč tudi promociji likovnega ustvarjanja in umetnosti nasploh. Razstavo z originalnimi likovnimi deli slikarja bo pripravil in na otvoritvi o njej spregovoril dr. Albert Halász, sodelavec domoznanskega oddelka Pokrajinske in študijske knjižnice Murska Sobota.

Organizator:
Pokrajinska in študijska knjižnica Murska Sobota
Program je podprlo:
Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije