András Tibor: Történeti festő a XX. Században. Sümegi György elemző tanulmányával (Budapest, 2017)

Sümegi György: Ismeretlen történeti festő a XX. századból: András Tibor

Murányi, the daughter of the painter.46 He was careful, he tried to use the camera without taking any chances, he didn't want to cause trouble to anyone with his photos. It's not known how many pictures he took in the streets of Budapest in October and November 1956, what is certain that there are 49 pieces of 6 x 9 prints are in hand. The fate of the negatives (where they are, where they were developed ect.) is not known either because Tibor András hid them, or kept them in a secret place for he didn't want his family members to get in trouble.47 That was the general attitude during the age of retaliations in the Kádár era. No one ever talked about carefully kept documents. They guarded them because they believed there will be a time when they can get them out to become important witnesses. On the back of each photo he inscribed where the picture was taken, what was on it, but unfortunately he didn't write down the date. However, the way he put them one after another might give us a chronological order as well, since the first photos were shot around his apartment, then on the Széna and Moszkva Squares, or the Móricz Zsigmond Roundabout, even the cleaning of the rubble he has on pictures. The photos of January 1957 were taken a bit further up his apartment at the Kvassai sluice gate in the island of Csepel when the curfew was lifted and András had a job in Csepel. His collection of photographs is similar to the works of amateur photographers like Róbert Jajesnica,48 Gyula Kinczler, László Fettich, Zsolt Papp,49 Dr. István Pap.50 51 There aren't any outstanding shots among Tibor András' photos yet they preserve something peculiar from those days when the marks of destruction and ravage show themselves the most. His 1956 photo collection is a visual diary of where he went in the city and what he photographed. His approach- as his daughter mentioned it - is to carefully keep his distance from anyone, for example, he didn't try to make any portraits. He rather followed the movements of groups and the crowd. Primarily he walked around in his neighborhood (József Boulevard) and as a veteran soldier, he mostly paid attention to the alterations of tanks, armored vehicles and cannons (2. Üllői Street tank, 4. Pedestrians looking at dead bodies on a burnt out tank, 10. Armored vehicle hit the tree, 11. Roadside Wreckage, 12. Truck on the Boulevard, 13. Revolutionary guard on the Boulevard, 14. Technical barrier in the VIII. district. 30. Burnt out tank guarding the Square. A, 37. Firing Soviet tank in Baross Street).5' During the fights he took pictures of destroyed vehicles and munitions of insurgents who were getting ready to defend themselves through resistance. (6a. In frontot the Killian barrack, 17. It used to be a mortar, 16. Munitions prepared by the insurgents on the Boulevard) Later he started going further to document the damaged houses, the ruined streets the wounds of the city. (5. View to the barrack from Krúdy Street, 6b. Still life in Corvin Passage, 7. The headquarters of the insurgents, 9. IX. District, 18. Trees of Ferenc Boulevard, 20. Corner house in the Boulevard, 22. Houses of the Boulevard, /2., 4./, 25. Houses of Lenin Boulevard, 15.1, 26. Széna Square, 27. Shooting 46 P.Szabó Dénes: Képre vitt forradalom. Népszava, 2016. márc. 20. 47 Not one of his work regarding the 1956 revolution was every published during his life. Magyar nemzet published 5 drawings of 1956 revolution in 1989 (see notes 52., 55., 56., 59 and his biography. These works were first exhibited in 2016 Egy képzőművész haditudósító képei, 2016. March 20 - May 14. St István Bazilika Lovagterme, Budapest: '56 Rejt Jel Képek. A forradalom titkos művészete, 2016. 06. 23-11.13.; Haditudósítás 1956 (az 1956-os forradalom rajzai), 2016. nov. 24-2017. jan. 7., Rákospalota Pestújhely és Újpalota helytörté­neti Gyűjteménye ADELIN Galery. 48 Róbert Jajesnica: A meggyalázott város. Napkút kiadó, Bp., 2006. 49 Naplók, interjúk '56-ról. Ed.: György Sümegi. Enciklopédia Kiadó, Bp., 2006. 149-154, 161-164, 191-194. 50 1956 - Ferencváros és a szabadságharc. In: Ferencváros kétszáz éve. Ed.: Eszter Götz, György Orbán. Ráday Könyvesház, Bp., 2010. 244-252. 51 The titles of the photographs are based on Tibor András' note. 65

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