intangible cultural heritage

A region open for Fine Arts

area : Vasi Hegyhát
category : performing arts
We have to mention five people who live or used to live in the Vasi Hegyhát region and who have never forgot their bonding for the motherland. One of them never knew the region truly, he never lived in the Vasi Hegyhát region, but after his artistic heritage found home in Vasvár, his statues became true cultural values of the area. The others were simply magnetized by the region.
The favourite artistic theme is often the beautiful landscape and the natural environment of the Vasi Hegyhát, and especially the old vineyards in Oszkó, or the Jeli Arboretum.
Richárd Török
The sculptor died very young and in a tragic way. His parents decided to give his works, which are not standin in public places all across Europe, to Vasvár, the 'Town of Culture' in Hungary.
The statues can be seen in the Museum of Vasvár, at the upper floor in a fully renovated, brand new exhibition hall. The artist (31th July, 1954. Budapest-21th January, 1993. Budapest) studied at the College of Hungarian Fine Arts, his master was József Somogyi.
His skills in sculpting attracted the attention on his very first live acts. The sensitive shaping of the forms are as important as his brave and open-minded compositions. He smartened classic-style compositions easily with vibrating, eventful surfaces.

Ádám Kisléghi Nagy
The artist moved to the Vasi Hegyhát region in the 90's. The painter graduated at the College of Hungarian Fine Arts in 1985. His master was Lajos Sváby.
He made several icons, murals and frescos in Hungary and also an Apocalypse-fresco in a small village's church next to Barcelona. He made a Secco mural in the Italian Madognana, four huge oil paintings for the Cathedral in Szombathely, an icon-cross for the Roman Catholic Church of Zalaegerszeg, and then he painted the altar-painting of Pieve di Capanne's chapel. His strong light and shadow contrast oil-paintings quotes to Caravaggio and Zubaran, just as his master's paintings. His paintings were mainly made in religious, Christian themes.

Lajos Káldy
However he was born in the Hegyhát (Csipkerek, 1922) he lives in Szombathely today. Nevertheless, the Vasi Hegyhát region is still his favourite place for painting. Especially the paintings about the Oszkó vineyard's old wine cellars make him the 'painter of the Hegyhát'. One of his favourite styles is watercolour which he uses to pain atmospheric village houses, forest plots, hill-sides and watersides. In the past 10 years he painted several wine cellar-types of different regions. He took part in several group exhibitions, but the number of his independent exhibitions started to grow only in the past few years.

László Nádler
The painter moved from Budapest to the Vasi Hegyhát region in the early 1990s. The region and the landscape inspired the artist. Today, there is a permanent exhibition with 300 new and old paintings of him in Oszkó where he receives visitors people interested in fine arts, especially painting.
He was born in Keszthely, 1954. He makes his paintings in several styles, from impressionism and realism to constructivist, abstract arts. The main works are Mediterranean landscapes, still-lives, portraits but there are also paintings about wine cellars, village scenes, paintings with hunting or horse theme, paintings about forests and also oil paintings.

Miklós Bodor
He is a nationally well-known painter, he spent the main part of his life as graphic artist in the Alföld region (Great Hungarian Plain), until he came to the Jeli Arboretum where he fell in love with the arboretum's “semper vireo”, its evergreen life. This love with the nature was so strong that the artist moved to a small village next to the Jeli Arboretum, Kám in 1992 where he lived with his wife until his death. He painted the flowers of the arboretum during this creative period.

Miklós Bodor (1925-2010) was a painter and graphic. His rich lifework includes more than 3000 graphics, and some oil paintings and pastels. He made a lace-design based on the style of the coronation robe, then the finished work was presented to Pope John Paul II as a gift from the town Kiskunhalas.
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