Mednyánszky László (1852-1919) went to Szeged right away and took part in the works to defend the town when he heard of the flood in March 1879. The excellent painter helped the people in trouble without a hesitation. One of the most popular artist and the town meets again: a Mednyánszky exhibition opens on 27 January.

28 works, 20 oil paintings and 8 graphics from the collection of the Slovakian National Gallery will be shown. The exhibition is shown for the first time in this form in Hungry. The material is an exciting review of the work of Mednyánszky before the turn of the century. His landscapes, portraits, representations of men will be excellent works to see. Most of the works exhibited were made in his homeland in Nagyőr.

Besides small sketches, drawings, the audience may see larger paintings such as the one titled 'Misfortune' made in the first half of the 1880's. One of the most interesting piece is the 'Dusk'. It was auctioned as the work of an unknown artist at an auction in the USA. Howe, the person who bought it recognized that it was a Mednyánszky and it was moved to the collection of the Slovakian National Gallery. This work is a good example for Mednyánszky using the land to express his own spiritual state.

According to memories, Mednyánszky, who was often sick from his childhood, learned to draw before he learned to talk. He drew on every paper he touched. The land in Nagyőr, the monumental land of the Tatra was the important topic of his work until his death.

The value of the pictures soon to be shown in the Móra Ferenc museum is raised due to luck and coincidence, namely that it is a luck itself that some of the pictures were preserved at all. The artist did not cling to his pictures, he gave many of them over as presents. It was not yet discovered what happened to the pictures he made in Paris and Babylon.