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

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

by the fallen heroes.) Tibor András' drawings published in Tábori Újság were indeed realistic works of war correspondence. However, he couldn't participate at the War Correspondent Exhibit40 but it wouldn't be possible anyways since he was at the front at that time. Elemér Polony's battle notebook around June 10 and September 12 in 1942 gives us some information about the members of a war correspondent drawing group, namely Imre Ballagó, István Benyovszky, Barnabás Megyeri, Lajos Pándy, Elemér Polony, Lajos Szalay41 and their works, drawings, paintings and sculpture. Nevertheless such works of war couldn't be mentioned in the decade following the war, during the Rákosi era. These art works were blacklisted, forbidden to read and search like Imre Ballagó's drawing book titled Hungarian Soldier from the Eastern Front42 that was similar with Tibor András' philosophy. The goal of painting historical subjects was probably strengthened by Tibor András' work as a sketch artist in the war even though Aurél Bernáth qualified historical painting as anachronistic and tried to persuade him out of following that path when he started his university studies again in 1946. He was able to realize his original plan when his life changed drastically right after he was expelled from the university. In 1956 one of his main historical works The Battle of Hunyadi's Bargemen under Nándorfehérvár43 (1953) was included in Hungarian National Museum János Hunyadi Memorila Exibit 1456-1956 between August 11 and November 5 1956 and again in the reopened Hunyadi exhibit which began on March 15, 1957.44 There are soldiers, groups of riders, on the panhandle leaning to the left side and barges in the Danube in the foreground of the top viewed, panoramic composition as the city is distinctly blurry in the upper part of the painting. Tibor András and his family had lived on the Grand Boulevard, we could say that in one of the centers of the 1956 revolution. His son, Ferenc recalled some family memories from around that time. „In 1956, when the first cannon shot was heard one morning in József Boulevard our joint tenant, Rudolf Langer dressmaker and amateur painter ran over to my father. Since they both had been to war they acted fast. They took off the windows facing the boulevard, placed wooden folding screen in the middle of the room to reduce the strength of the gunshots. (After the fights only our windows stayed intact.) I went over to the neighbor and looked out of he window with Rudolf Langer's wife aunt Olga and across the street we saw a bleeding man carrying a load of bread trying to sneak further on along the wall. We shouted to him to go inside a doorway. Later my mother and I moved to inner room, there the windows looked out the corridor. It was a bit safer though one of the explosions were so strong that it cracked the door of our closed inner room. This crack reminded me to 1956 for a long time (...) Later our family with all the other families in the house moved down to the air-raid shelter, every family had their own spot."45 Tibor András walked the streets with a Leica camera. „He hang the camera on his neck under his coat and when he took a picture he opened the coat. He could look at the aperture from above, so he could walk inconspicuously. - said Judit 40 Haditudósító kiállítás a Pesti Vigadóban (Exhibit of War Correspondents 1943. May 2-12. Képek és szobrok jegyzéke. (List of Pictures and Sculptures) ifj. Kellner Ernő könyvnyomdája, Bp., 1943. 41 György Sümegi: Szalay Lajos háborúja. A fegyverek közt (sem) hallgatnak a múzsák. In: A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve L. Miskolc, 2011. 457-465. 42 The book publishing 26 drawings: Imre Ballagó: Magyar honvéd a keleti arcvonalról. Preface by József Ambrus. Nemzetőr, Bp., 1943. 43 Canvas, oil, 108 x 126 cm, indicated down in the left Tibor András VII. 3 1953 44 Letter by Gyula László, archeologist, the curator of the exhibit to Tibor András Budapet, VII. 30 1956 and I. 23 1957. (Legacy of Tibor András) 45 Ferenc András' E-mail to the György Sümegi64

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