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Alföld Gallery - Hódmezővásárhely
Address: 6800, Hódmezővásárhely Kossuth tér 8.
Phone number: (62) 245-499
Opening hours: Tue-Sun 10-17
The exhibition has closed for visitors.
2016.02.28. - 2016.03.26.
fine art, temporary exhibition, textile art
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Museum tickets, service costs:
Ticket for adults
400 HUF
Ticket for students
200 HUF
Ticket for pensioners
200 HUF
The painter Redő Ferenc was born in Budapest in 1913. His tutors were Vilmos Aba Novák, Róbert Berény and Béla Iványi Grünwald. He first showed in 1934. Initially, his drawings and paintings were featured in exhibitions. He was awarded twice at the spring shows by the Szinyei Merse Pál Society. His lino cuts were shown by the Ernst Museum.

In 1936 he married the artist Rozália Vörös. Their first child, Katalin was born in 1940.
During the years of World War II he was enlisted in the army four times. Due to his Jewish origin he was ordered to do forced labour in the unarmed division. The longest time for him in the army was one and a half years when he served on the Russian Front between the spring of 1942 and autumn of 1943. He was last stationed in Bor in Serbia, from where he escaped by the help of Serbian partisans. Their second child, Ferenc was born after the war.

During the first years after World War II, he worked as an artist. At first he managed the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry of Public Education, later on he became Director General of the Museum of Fine Arts. In 1954 he taught at the College of Applied Arts, and finally he was a specialist proofreader for the Fine Arts Fund. Since 1960 he worked as an independent artist.

At first he was involved in graphics, but he turned to textile based art. He made large batik pictures, which were first shown at the Kiss Csók István Gallery in 1957. In 1960 he and his wife Rozlia Vörös won a national Gobelin tender. Subsequently, his work was dedicated to the benefit of Gobelin design. He and Rozália Vörös worked together for a wile, creating small gobelins. However, later their paths separated. During his career, he designed seventeen gobelins on orders, and more than a hundred on his own initiative.

His wife and colleague died in 1992. He spent the last two decades of his life without her. Memories of his long life and creative imagination helped him get through the final, lonely sage of his life. Nevertheless, it was a fertile period in his career, since several important works were made at this time in view of his oeuvre. He published a Gobelin album containing forty-seven reproductions. He also completed his richly illustrated autobiography, which dealt with the first fifty years of struggles. He died in October 2012, in the one-hundredth years of his life

The painter Rozália Vörös was born in Budapest in 1919. She was thirteen years old when she began to learn at the free school of Vilmos Aba-Novák. Her tutors were Vilmos Aba Novák, Róbert Berény and Béla Iványi Grünwald. Her extraordinary abilities soon showed. She first showed in 1936. A year later, at the Twelfth Spring Exhibition of the National Salon six pictures by her were featured in the material on display in the Grand Hall.

She married Ferec Redő in 1936. Their first child, Katalin was born in 1940.

During the years of World War II, she and her children fought for their lives in Budapest and Leányfalu while she selflessly helped her family members who were in even more difficult situations. During that time, she was artistically withdrawn but some of these works decorate the local community house of parish. Their second child, Ferenc was born after the war.

The post-war economic situation did not favour young artists just out of school. She could not continue to work as an artist due to her assignments all across the country. In 1954, she resigned and became an independent artist again. From then on she was a regular visitor to the Hódmezôvásárhely Artists and Creative House in Zsennye. In 1968 and 1982 for an extended period of time she enjoyed the benefis of Scholarship offered by the Collegium Hungaricum of Rome. The Danuve Bend, where he lived greatly influenced her art.

Her main genre was oil painting, but she also loved to work with pastels. However, she was equally familiar with landscape and portrait painting. Most pictures by her are owned by private collectors, however, some are held by the Hungarian National Gallery and the Tornyai János Museum. Beginning in sixties, she discovered gobelins and started designing, also learned to weave and executed several of her designs. She taught dozens of interested amateurs of the craft. Her most outstanding students offered the opportunity to turn their design into art. Of more than eighty of her works twenty were commissioned.

In 1992 she died in a serious illness before she could havefulfiled her artistic mission. In 1979 she was awarded with the -ben a Work Order of Merit Silver Award.