Product Description
Painter Imre Égerházi was born hundred years ago. This representative publication summarises the most important visual and textual information about the artist, who was a master of 20th-century painting in the Great Plain. Born in Hajdúhadház, he became a painter in Debrecen and a profound chronicler of the Hajdúság region and the Hortobágy. An excellent art organizer who travelled extensively around the world, his art is an integral part of his work in artist colonies, among which his Transylvanian paintings stand out. In the year of his centenary, MODEM in Debrecen commemorated his work with a retrospective exhibition. This time, interested readers can pick up the large-scale book edited by Attila Égerházi, which also expresses an important commitment to art history with its mission to fill a gap.
Balázs Feledy
art writer
“This art album is the culmination of 24 years of work. Reproductions of 701 works and 113 photographs illustrate my book presenting the life and artistic career of Imre Égerházi. For 24 years, I have been documenting, collecting, researching, and processing my father’s artistic and art organizational legacy. From the very beginning, I insisted on using professional photography and image processing methods so that this comprehensive work could be produced in the best possible quality. With the help of the family legacy, institutional materials, and private collections, the paintings and graphics presented here provide a complete picture of Imre Égerházi’s art in terms of technique, content, and history. In the book, I have used contemporary and present-day critiques, reviews, and other writings by outstanding experts and renowned writers in order to authentically present the development of his unique painting style, not only in terms of the end result, but also in terms of the creative process. In many places, my father recounts the important milestones in his own words, painting the most authentic picture possible.
It has magical significance for me that we are sending the book to press on September 2, exactly on the 100th anniversary of Imre Égerházi’s birth.
Budapest, September 2, 2025.
Attila Égerházi
Djabe
The book will be presented at several locations across the country during November.
November 4, 6 p.m., Debrecen, Modem – with the participation of Attila Égerházi, Balázs Feledy, Rudolf Velényi, and Lajos Arany.
Address: 4026 Debrecen, Hunyadi János u. 1-3.
November 5, 4 p.m., Hajdúhadház, Földi János Library – with the participation of Attila Égerházi, Balázs Feledy, Rudolf Velényi, Lajos Arany, Djabe band
Address: 4242 Hajdúhadház, Dr. Földi János u. 8.
Admission to the presentations is free of charge, no registration is required. The book can be purchased at the venues.
