András Mikola
( Nagypeleske , March 17, 1884 - Baia Mare , July 4, 1970) > Hungarian painter, a prominent landscape painter and master of the second generation of the Baia Mare artists' colony.
At the beginning of his career, he studied law in Debrecen, but it soon became clear that he was “only” interested in drawing and painting. He studied drawing and painting at the Baia Mare Art Colony, then at the Ferenc Szablya-Frischauf Private School in Budapest, and later at the Budapest College of Fine Arts, and went to Paris, the Julian Academy and the Delécluse Academy with scholarships. In the early 1910s, he also traveled to Italy and Germany on scholarships. His masters were Károly Ferenczy, István Réti and Paul Laurens. Abroad, Paul Cézanne's painting had the greatest influence on him, but it was not even the determining factor in his painting, but the traditions of Baia Mare, the plein air, the love of nature and the painting of the landscape. He was an exhibiting artist from 1908, his first exhibition took place in Budapest at the Kálmán Könyves Salon, and then in 1910 at the Műcsarnok. His fresh vision soon appeared in the eyes of experts and the public. In his style, naturalism and impressionism were combined, reflecting the atmosphere of the hilly, wooded landscape of Baia Mare and the blue sky overlying it with color dots and spots of light. It had a special delicate and then increasingly intense color. In the early 1920s he was elected a member of the Pál Szinyei Merse Society, and in 1927 he was unanimously elected president of the Society of Painters of Baia Mare (NFT). Together with János Krizsán, Samu Börtsök and Sándor Ziffer, he corrected the works of the art students of Baia Mare until 1944. They had several excellent disciples, including Lithia Agricola. A II. he lived in retreat after World War II and then re-engaged in art life in the 1960s. The heyday of his creative period fell in the 1910s. His paintings are preserved in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest and the Rippl-Rónai Museum in Kaposvár, as well as in many public and private collections in Romania.
From his works
Early spring (oil on canvas, 100 x 111 cm; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest)
Nagybánya landscape (oil on canvas, 66.5 x 58 , 5 cm; MNG)
Self-portrait (1906; oil on canvas, 100 x 66 cm; MNG)
Sitting Nude (1908)
Study (1910 Portrait) [1]
Zazarpart (1910s oil on canvas, 52.5 x 66 cm; MNG)
At the Creative Street Customs (MNG)
Landscape of Baia Mare (1) (oil on canvas, 64x49 cm)
Landscape of Baia Mare (2) (oil on canvas, 66.5x58.5 cm)
Houses in Baia Mare (MNG)
Summer in Baia Mare (oil on canvas, 65 × 95 cm; privately owned) < br /> Fair on the main square
Edge of the Village (privately owned)
Picture Book (1960)
Volume
András Mikola: Colors and Lights: a Memories of a painter from Baia Mare. With the foreword by Zoltán Banner. Cluj-Napoca, 1972.
Association
Baia Mare Painters' Association (NFT)
Szinyei Merse Pál Society
Awards, recognitions < br /> Meritorious Artist of Romania (1964)
Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic (1966)