Museum - Town Gallery

The Town Gallery of Orosháza opened its gates on 23, October 1996 in the so-called Bille House. The miller Bulla Mihály ordered the building of the house in 1866. The two story house was used for several purposes, it was a post office, pharmacy, etc.

At the time of WWII, the Jewish owner, Bille Bernát was carried off. He was only able to return a few years later with his family. His daughter Ilona lived in the house the longest time. After her death, the house was taken by the town.

In the last years of the system of councils, an application was announced for the utilization of the house. The leaders had already planned to move the Boldizsár Gallery to a newer building. In the meantime, the Bille House was taken down.

The new and modern building was built according to the old style. The fine art material in the exhibition ward later was complemented with the material of the man who was born in Orosháza.

The Town Gallery, a two story building with 583 m2 as its basis, is in the center of the town. The works of the photo artist Nicolás Muller (Müller Miklós), the painter Bolmányi Ferenc and the painter Feldmann Tibor can be found on the first floor of the exhibition while the works of the painters Pap Gyula, Boldizsár István and Csáki-Maronyák József and the sculptor Emil Vitroel are on the second floor.

Beside the permanent exhibitions, temporary exhibitions also await the visitors in the Town Gallery and the Mayor's Office. Beside the exhibition musical evenings, lectures on art and book premieres are also held in the Gallery.

The Town Galley also provides space for groups and cultural circles of the town:
- Circle of Picture Friends
- Nicolás Muller FIAP Regional Photo Art Studio
- Hungarian-Finish Circle of Friends
- English Language Club
- Group of Painters of Orosháza
- "The Present", the meetings of the editors of the periodical Orosházi Almanach.

The institution is operated by the Association of Cultural Realtions since 1st February 2002. Based on the agreement with the Self-government of the Town of Orosháza.

Programmes

English Language Club

Nicolas Müller FIAP Regional Photo Art Studio Meeting

Hungarian -Meeting of the Finish Circle of Friends

The meetings of the Friends of Pictures

further programmes

Permanent exhibitions

Emil Vitroel

Emil Vitroel was born in 1929 in Csermő in Arad county. His career was helped by Soós József, the world famous sculptor living in Romania. He finished the Collage of Fine Art of Bucharest with honors in 1955. Then he moved back to Arad along with his young colleagues with the aim to make the town a cultural center.

Ferenc Bolmányi

His career did not flourish right away, but his portraits became well known soon. Still, at the beginning of the 30's, he turned away from portraits that had provided him his living. The following stages of his career reflect deep humanity and worry about the fate of mankind. General problems occupied his thoughts; the questions of existence, the meaningless devastations and fear.

Gyula Pap

In 1917-1918, he fought at the front of Doberdo with the troopers no 61. In 1918-1919, he studied at the Applied Arts Collage of Budapest. In the Fall of 1919 he visited his parents and at the same time organized his first independent exhibition in Vienna in 1920 about the horror of the war. In 1920-1921, he studies at the Bauhaus in Weimar where he worked in the metal workshop. He designed his first works that are still now the first representative pieces of the institution.

István Boldizsár

Boldizsár István was bon on 29, July 1897 in Orosháza. He belonged to the third generation of the Nagybányai School that formed in 1986 and influenced the development of Hungarian fine art for the following years. He grew up in Orosháza; his interest in art can be traced back to his childhood and the family relation Tornyai János. His talent was soon discovered.

further exhibitions