Our exhibition in Budapest is a stop, a branch of an exhibition series. The material on display consists of unknown works of art and some that have not been shown for some time now. The Cifrapalota in Kecskemét, the Thorma János Museum, the Künstlerhaus of Munich in addition to Nagybánya, Stuttgart and Berlin present 50­60 items. The exhibition then arrives in Budapest where the National Gallery will show 120 works, the most important selection from the works of the artist so far.

Thorma János was one of the founders of the Nagybánya Art School that gained fame in 1896. He taught several of the great Hungarian painters. He spent most of his life and worked most of the time in the mining town on the banks of Zazar, in Nagybánya, the town that soon became the Hungarian School Barbizon.

His first success came at a young age, not even in Hungary but also in Munich and Paris. The name János Thorma meant grand historic paintings at the beginning of his career. This determined the afterlife of the painter even though there were a number of great paintings among those he did towards the end of his life. He turned to be a ripe Plein air artist in Nagybánya. His sweeping, fiery colours, paintings full of light, airy landscapes gradually turned more and more airy, full of light and fiery.

The exhibition on the 75th anniversary of his death presents over 100 paintings and sketches, most of which are new for even the profession not only for the public.

The exhibition was realised through the contribution of several institutes and pubéic colletions: the Art Museum of Nagybánya, the Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs , the Móra Ferenc Museum of Szeged, the Déri Museum of Debrecen, the Herman Ottó Museum of Miskolc, the Katona József Museum of Kecskemét and the Thorma János Museum of Kiskunhalas in addition to several private collections Hungary, Germany and Romania.

Works of art by János Thorma make up a number of collections and the permanent exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum, however, except for the exhibition that was held shortly after his death in 1939, he never had a collective exhibition in Budapest. Therefore, we can say that it is time for a new approach to the art of János Thorma. This forward-looking exhibition is to change the approach to the art of János Thorma. Our intention is to provide a more detailed view on the newly presented pictures.

The curator of exhibition was : Barbara Büki