The OKM application we won in 2007 helped us buy 19 pictures for the Czétényi Collection of our museum. Thus, we could show artworks for the first time and that shed light on the oeuvre of the artist from a different angle.

Vilmos Czétényi was born in 1928 in Budapest. He began his studies in 1935 in Pesterzsébet. Among others, Ágoston Muszély and Tibor Csorba supported him at grammar school. He studied for his entrance exam to the university at the House of Artists and the open school of Kálmán Istókovics. He studied at the Royal Collage of Applied Arts in 1942-46. In the meantime he was member of the Misztótfalusi People's Collage which he also helped to establish. This institution supported him in his studies at collage. From 1948 to 1953 he studied at the Collage of Fine Arts: His masters were Aurél Bernáth, László Bencze, Róbert Berény and Endre Domanovszky. His teachers were Jenő Barcsay and István Szőnyi among others. His diploma work was shown at the National Fine Arts Exhibition at the Hall of Arts. He was among the founders of the "Átlók Arts Group". In 1992 his album entitled "Monotypes" was published alongside his exhibition at the Imre Gaál Gallery. The Pesterzsébet Museum owns a number of his significant monotypes.

In Pesterzsébet the Gaál Imre Gallery held exhibitions showing his art in 1992, 1998 and 2001 His works of art can also be found at the Hungarian National Gallery, Hatvany Museum, Kecskemét Reformed Church Collection, the Town Museum of Mosommagyaróvár and several private collections.

Ildikó D.Udvary
arts historian, manager of the museum