Hell and Paradise of the artist Chongwari. Old fisherman mystery ingenious painting old fisherman

Most recently, the subject of terrible attention of art historians became the painting of the Tivadar Bone of Chonterty "Old Rybak", written by him in 1902. By means of a mirror reflection, two absolutely different images are created alternately and the right parts of the picture - God in the boat against the background of a quiet lake or the Devil on the volcano and Storm waters behind.

After the discovery of this fact, the status of the painting came to the recognition of the author's creativity differently. But what did Tivar Chongwari say to his work? Many suspected the connection of the artist's artist with mysticism and with great diligence began to study the heritage of the Hungarian painter.

Until recently, only a few who are interested in painting, in particular, expressionism and primitivism, the name of the Hungarian artist Tivadar Kostan Chongwari was known. About the dead in poverty almost 100 years ago, the painter, who, besides, was considered crazy (some researchers of his biographies think that Tivar was sickly schizophrenia), many people recently spoke.

The fact is that one of the staff of the city museum in the city, considering the picture of Tivadar Chongwari "Old Fisherman", discovered that if we split the mirror with a mirror in half, two different images will be obtained!

This item was interested in not only many art historians, but also ordinary people. They spoke about the secret mysticism of the work, the attitude towards the creative heritage of Hungarian self-taught was revised. In Russia, interest in this fact rose after the release of the release of the transfer "What? Where? When?" On October 1, 2011, during which the viewer with the question of the picture "Old Rybak" managed to beat the experts.

The most believable version of the idea is relatively laid in the picture is the opinion of the dualistic character of human nature, which Tivar wanted to convey. All his life, a person spends in constant struggle of two began: male and female, kind and evil, intuitive and logical. This is the components of being. Like God and the Devil in Chongwari's painting, they complement each other, without one there is no other.

"Old fisherman" as an embodiment of the lived life and human wisdom with a simple reception shows how they harmonize in each of us bad and good, good and evil, God and the devil. And balance them - the task of each person.

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This is a picture of Tivadar Bone Chongwari, it is called "old fisherman". At first glance, there is nothing particularly remarkable in it, as well as art historians, but one day a suggestion was put forward that God and the devil were depicted on it. The mystery is, because of which such a thought was born. Under the cut will be a picture of more, biography and unbridva :)

Guess? Not? Maybe the details will tell you the answer?

I still suffer a story about the artist. Who does not wait, fly down the answer.

Self-portrait

Tivar Kostac was born on July 5, 1853, in the mountain village of Kischeben, belonging to Austria (now Sabinov, Slovakia) - Hungarian self-taught artist.

His father Lasli Bone was a doctor and pharmacist. Tivar and five of his brothers grew up in an atmosphere impregnated with the spirit of pharmacology. The future artist since childhood knew that he would become a pharmacist. But before it changed to them, many professions, worked by a trade serving, some time visited lectures at the Faculty of Law, and only then he studied pharmacology.

Once, he was already 28 years old, being in a pharmacy, he grabbed a pencil and painted on a prescription form that he saw a simple scene from the window - a passing cart, harmful buffaloes. Was this the beginning of schizophrenia, which he suffered afterwards, but since then the dream becomes an artist, covered it.

He goes to Rome, then to Paris, where meets with the famous Hungarian artist Miham Mukankach (by the way, also ending life in a psychiatric hospital). And then returns to his homeland, and for fourteen years he works in a pharmacy, seeking to achieve material independence. I saved small capital, goes to learn first in Munich, and then to Paris.

Study did not bring him satisfaction. And because in 1895 it goes on a trip to Italy to draw landscapes. Traveled also in Greece, North Africa and the Middle East.
In 1900, he replaced his surname of the bone on the pseudonym Chongwari.
Already in 1907 and in 1910, personal exhibitions took place in Paris, but they did not bring him recognition. Recognition and Hungary did not receive his paintings, and the author had a reputation as crazy.

In 1910, the creation period ended. The attacks of the disease became more severe. He painted now extremely rarely, only sketches of his surrealistic visions.
In recent years, he wrote books: Pamphlet "Energy and Arts, Mistakes of a civilized person" and the study of "Genius. Who can, and who can not be a genius. "
During his life, the artist did not sell any of his paintings.
The last major picture "Ride on the shore" was written in Naples in 1909.

On June 20, 1919, the artist Chongwari died, as they write, from arthritis.
Relatives, consulted with specialists, those assured them in the full fiction insolvency of Tyivadar as an artist, and soon the paintings were put up for auction not as works of art, but as chunks of canvas. Random collector (random?) Locked all the pictures in bulk for a meager amount, satisfied with the short-sighted (or still deceived) nephews.

Well, now the unagnation :) take the mirror and attach the picture in the center and see these answers :)
God, with a calm sea behind his back.

And the devil with raging passions.

It seems to me that the fate of the Hungarian artist Chongwari (Tivar Kookka) and the Georgian classic Niko Pirosmani () are in many ways similar, except that the all-consuming love for Margarita in Chongwari was not. He was also not recognized during his lifetime, he also heard crazy and died in poverty ... However, about everything in order.

Landscape during sunset, 1899

Ferenc Sheet - Hungarian Rhapsody (Iz. Denis Matsuev)

Tivadar Kontyak Chongwari was born in 1853 in the small Hungarian village of Kisheben. His father Laslo Backet was a doctor and pharmacist. Tivar and five of his brothers since childhood knew that she would continue the case of the Father. But before studying the pharmacology, the bone graduated from the gymnasium in the city of Ungwar (the current Uzhgorod), worked for a trading employee for some time, then he visited the Lectures at the Faculty of Law, only then became a pharmacist and worked for them for fourteen years.

East railway station at night, 1902

The path of the artist Tivadar began in 1880. In 1880, in one autumn day, working in a pharmacy, he looked out the window, mechanically picked up a pencil, a recipe form and began to draw. It was not something abstract - on paper turned out to be captured by the cargo passing by. The owner of the pharmacy, seeing the picture, praised Chongwari, saying that it was not different how today the artist was born. Later, at sunset life, Tivar himself in autobiography written in the mystical-prophetic manner characteristic of him, describing what happened, he said that he had a vision. It was how it was suggested to Tyivadan his destination - to become a great painter.

Oilseed mountain in Jerusalem, 1905

For the beginning, Tyivar left the Father's Family Business and opened his own pharmacy in the town of Gach in the north of Hungary. For ten years, he continued to work in a pharmacy to achieve financial independence and scatter the capital needed for creativity. In parallel, he began to srink the stuffed animals, draw the figures of people. Already in the spring of 1881, the bone has selected money to go to Italy and see the paintings of Rafael. In his notes, after visiting the Vatican Museum, he wrote: "I didn't see the wildlife there, Rafael has no of that sun, to which I aspire ..."

Blooming Almonds (Italian Landscape), OK.1901

Chonterty began to engage in painting only in the mid-1890s, in 1894 he left the Phatemci brothers and arrived in Munich in March. In many sources, the artist is called self-taught, and he studied painting, and quite good teachers. In Munich, the fire comes to learn from the private art school of his compatriot, the famous Hungarian artist Shimon Hollyshi, who was ten years younger than his student. They brought them closer to the idea, put forward by Hollos, that "Hungarian art can become truly national only on native soil, under the Hungarian sky, in communicating with the reviving people."

Highland Street (at home), OK.1895

In the Munich period, the bonfare wrote portraits, and it is noted that they can see the "feeling of sadness, hopelessness, they are knocked out from the canvas of his creativity." It is said that when the artist wrote a portrait of the famous Munich vertmuller Munich, he looked at work, exclaimed: "I positive almost seventeen years old, but I have not managed to draw me anyone!". By the way, it was during the studies that the artist wrote several portraits, later he stopped interested in this genre.

Woman sitting by the window, 1890s

After Munich, Tivadar continued his studies in Karlsruhe in the studio of the artist Friedrich Callmoren. Historians celebrate that at that time the artist lived sneakly, because for his paintings I bought expensive Belgian canst. The only "inconvenience", that from the trips the artist brought the paintings with rolled in rolls, paint, laid in a thick layer, often crashed, and Tivadan had to periodically restore their work. He also trips to Rome and Paris.

Fishing in Castellammar, 1901

Study did not bring satisfaction tiwader. The artist ignored all the rules of art, he challenged attempts to consider him as a naive painter. In 1895, the artist went to travel on Dalmatia and Italy, where he wrote landscapes on which water, fire and earth had to be present. This is seen by the example of one of the famous works of the artist called "Castellamar di Stabia". This is the name of the city near Naples, which arose not the place of ancient stability, destroyed on August 24, 79. The eruption of Vesuvia, along with Pompeymi and Herkulanum. At the site of an ancient settlement and settled the Italian town of Castellammar Di Stabia, which is translated from Italian as the "Little Stabian Fortress by the Sea". The artist depicted on the right in the picture - the solar city street, which moves the trolley, shaped with a donkey, but on the left - the restless sea in front of the impending storms and the smoke of Vesuviy.

Castellammare di Stabia, 1902

In addition to Italy and France, the artist visited Greece, North Africa and the Middle East. In Greece, for example, large paintings were written "Ruins of the Greek Theater in Taormina" (1904-1905) and "Temple of Jupiter in Athenian ruins" (1904). In 1900, Tivadar changed his surname on the pseudonym Chongwari.

Ruins of the Greek Theater in Taormina, 1904-1905

In total, Chongwari wrote over one hundred paintings and more than twenty drawings. The main of them, the stylistics are close to expressionism and were created in 1903-1908. For example, in 1906 a huge picture of Baalbek was written - 7 x 4 meters. This is one of the "program" works of the artist, in which he tried to depict his "City of the Sun". Art historians write: "Past and present here. Life was, the ruins remained, memory remained. Life is, it continues: Lazy camels are walking somewhere and people are walking. "

Baalbek, 1906.

In 1907, Chountyary's paintings were exhibited at the International Exhibition in Paris, in 1908 - in the Gallery of Arts in Budapest. In Paris, one famous American art historian wrote about Chongwari's paintings - "They left behind everything that still existed in painting." But neither such an assessment of creativity nor the subsequent exhibition at home was brought by an artist's known, nor recognition.

Lone Cedar, 1907

In 1907-1908, Chongwari visited Lebanon, where symbolic paintings were written - "Lone Cedar", "Pilgrimage to Lebanese Kedram" and "Well Mary in Nazaret's well." In the last of these paintings, the artist in a person pouring water from a jug for donkey and goats, depicted himself.

Mary's Well in Nazareth, 1908

The Chountar Rooms were exhibited in other European countries in 1908 and 1910, but they also did not add fame and recognition to which the artist so sincerely hoped. In addition (and it was the most insultant!), The artist's work was not recognized in the homeland. In Hungary, Chongwari had a reputation as crazy because of the oddities of behavior, a ascetic lifestyle and inclinations when communicating to shave into a prophetic tone.

View of the city of Banska-Putyavnica on the horizon, 1902

The last picture of the artist is "horseback walk by the sea" (it is often translated from Hungarian as "walk along the shore"), was written in Naples in 1909. In the same year, the picture was shown at the World Exhibition in Paris, and almost half a century, in 1958, this work was awarded the main prize at the exhibition "50 years of contemporary art" in Brussels.

Equestrian walk by the sea, 1909

In 1910, Chongwari almost ceased to write pictures, because the attacks of the disease became more serious. True, historians note that attempts to write something new were, but the artist never brought one work to the end. He did not create a family and only occasionally communicated with his sister (about the fate of his brothers is unknown). Chongwari was restored by old works and still dreamed of a big exhibition in his homeland, after which he would be appreciated in real.

Waterfall Schaffhausen, 1903

The artist was going to open his own gallery, where he could show the paintings, he even drew a project of this gallery. He led a ascetic lifestyle, he was fed only by vegetables and fruits. Until the end of the life, he remained a supporter of the monarchy and a big fan of Emperor Austria and since 1848 King Hungary Franz Joseph I. Chonterty even wrote a portrait of the emperor, and legend says that when Franz Joseph has witnessed, the artist sent him a telegram in which he outlined his pharmacy Recommendations: What to take when and how.

City on the seashore, OK.1902

In recent years, Chegontari has also engaged in literary activities, he wrote a pamphlet "Energy and Arts, the mistakes of a civilized person" and the study of "Genius. Who can, and who can not be a genius. " Historians emphasize that Chongwari was a man egocentric, in communicating difficult, he remained convinced of his messianic destination to the end of his life. It is worth noting that during his life the artist did not sell any of his paintings. Chongwari died in 1919 in Budapest at the age of sixty years and was buried in Cerezcheshi cemetery.

Spring in Mostar, 1903

After the death of Chontely, his sister wanted to sell the paintings, she turned to museum workers, and those assured her that the canvas were no value. But the sister decided that at least the paintings were "Mazne", but the canvas can cost money. Therefore, she wrote an announcement of the sale of all paintings of the brother. In many sources, it is written that the paintings were bought in bulk by an unknown collector, but later the name of a person became known, thanks to which today you can see the pictures of Chongwari in the museums of Hungary. This is an architect Gedeon Gloots. And the story of practically salvation of paintings is just fantastic.

Shipwreck, 1903.

Heloces after the end of the Academy were looking for where to rent housing in Budapest. Once he walked down the street where Chongwari's workshop was located, saw an announcement of the sale of paintings and one of them, leaning against the wall. Later, Gloots recalled that when he passed past at home, the picture fell from the gust of the wind. It was the famous "lonely cedar". The next day, the gelors bought all the paintings, assigning the price a little higher than a neighbor-old woman present on the sale. For many years, the gloomy kept paintings in the chest in the folded form. When the architect began to teach Budapest in the school of graceful arts, it was transported and placed there the biggest canvas. In 1949, the Gloots drove the paintings by Chongwari to participate in exhibitions in Paris and Brussels.

Blooming almonds in Taormina, OK.1902

On the grave of Chontevari there is a monument - a bronze artist with a brush in his left hand. His story is also interesting. According to Hungarian laws, if, after 50 years after death, relatives do not pay for the cemetery to follow the grave, the remains of the deceased reboot in the general grave. Relatives of Chonterty and at lifetime, considered him "not from the world of this" an eccentric, who paints it is not clear that. The heirs of the grave did not do, historians and museum workers also did not study his work, so the remains of the artist and got in 1970 in the overall grave. But on the coincidence, it was from the beginning of the 1970s to grow interest in the heritage of the artist, and therefore in 1979, to the 60th anniversary of the artist's death, at the Cemeneche cemetery, this bronze monument was set, and his copy was established before the open six years earlier In the door of the artist's museum.

Monument on the grave of Chongwari

For the emergence of the museum, it is necessary to thank his director of Zoltan Fulize, who was a fan of Chongwari's creativity and collected his paintings. The Chongwari Museum is located in a two-story mansion built in the nineteenth century. Gloots handed over Fiveup almost all his collection of Chongwari pictures, and two years after the opening of the museum, the architect died. Historians point out that he even created a lot of buildings in the capital of Hungary, but the history of Hungarian art entered as a person who saved Chongwari heritage.

At the entrance to the wing wall in Jerusalem, 1904

The main works of the artist, of course, are exhibited in the Hungarian National Gallery. Together with those that are in the permanent exposition of the artist's museum in the city of Peat, their almost 130 pieces. About 25 artist historians found in private collections. Many works disappeared during World War II, some, on the contrary, were found unexpectedly. They say that a person who bought Chongwari's pharmacy at the end of the XIX century, discovered several drawings and paintings and paintings there, and all this removed the attic, in the middle of the twentieth century they were discovered in Berlin.

Waterfall in Egg, 1903

Until recently, only a few who are interested in painting, the name of Tivadara Kosta (Chonterty) was known. The died in a poverty almost 100 years ago the painter, who, besides, was considered crazy, they spoke quite recently. The fact is that one of the employees of the city museum of Pene, considering the picture "Old Fisherman" (1902), found that if it is divided by the canvas with a vertical mirror in half, two different images will be obtained! It turns out that the picture shows not just an old fisherman, but the Lord himself in the image of a white-breeding old man, behind the back of which the mountain and the calm sea rises, and at the same time Satan Devil against the background of storm waves. This item was interested in not only many art historians, but also ordinary people. They spoke about the secret mysticism of the work, the attitude towards the creative heritage of the Hungarian artist was revised.

Old fisherman, 1902

Here is such a semi-imaging story associated with one of the most original Hungarian painters. Of course, you can argue about his work, you can criticize or not take, but it seems to me that even a simple seafront, looking at the paintings of Chongwari, says: "There is something in them!"

Roman Bridge in Mostar, 1903

Zrigni begins the last attack, 1903

Temple Square overlooking the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, 1906

Valley Big Tarpatak in Tatras

The company turning through the bridge, 1904

Coaching in Athens to New Moon, 1904

Easter eggs from Tivadara Bone Chongwari

"Easter eggs" - hidden hints, jokes
and riddles in books, films, paintings.

This is a picture of Tivadar Bone Chongwari, it is called "old fisherman". At first sight
there is nothing particularly noteworthy in it, as well as art historians, but
once it was put forward to the assumption that God and the Devil were depicted on it.

In 1902, the Hungarian artist Tivadar Kostka Chongwari writes the picture "Old Fisherman".
It would seem that nothing unusual in the picture is not, but Tivar laid the hidden subtext in it,
during the lifetime of the artist and undisclosed. Few people occurred to apply the mirror
by the middle of the picture. In every person can be like God (the right shoulder is duplicated
Old man) and the devil (duplicated left shoulder old man)

God, with a calm sea behind his back.

And the devil with raging passions.

The most believable version is relatively laid in the picture of the idea is the opinion
on the dualistic nature of human nature, which Tivar wanted to convey. All
life a person spends in the constant struggle of two began: male and female, good and
evil, intuitive and logical. This is the components of being. Like God and the Devil on
picture of Chongwari, they complement each other, without one there is no other.
"Old fisherman" as an embodiment of life and human wisdom with a simple
reception shows how they harmonize in each of us bad and good, good and evil, God
and the devil. And balance them - the task of each person.

Self-portrait

Tivar Kooky was born on July 5, 1853, in the mountain village of Kischeben, belonging to
Austria (now Sabinov, Slovakia) - Hungarian self-taught artist.

His father Lasli Bone was a doctor and pharmacist. Tivar and five of his brothers grew in
the atmosphere impregnated with the spirit of pharmacology. The future artist since childhood knew what would be
pharmacar. But before you changed a lot of professions, worked by a commercial employee,
some time attended lectures at the Faculty of Law, and only then he studied pharmacology.

Once, he was already 28 years old, being in a pharmacy, he grabbed a pencil and painted
on the prescription form, they saw a simple scene from the window - passing a cart,
packy buffalo. Whether it was the beginning of schizophrenia, which he suffered afterwards
but since then the dream becomes an artist, covered it.

He goes to Rome, then to Paris, where meets the famous Hungarian artist
Miham Munkachi (by the way, also ending life in a psychiatric hospital). And then
returns to his homeland, and for fourteen years works in a pharmacy, seeking to achieve
material independence. Copying a small capital, goes to learn first in Munich,
and then to Paris.

Study did not bring him satisfaction. And therefore in 1895 goes on a trip
in Italy to draw landscapes. Traveled also in Greece, North Africa and
Middle East.
In 1900, he replaced his surname of the bone on the pseudonym Chongwari.

Already in 1907 and in 1910, personal exhibitions took place in Paris, but they did not bring him
recognition. Did not get his paintings recognition and in Hungary, and the author had a reputation
crazy.

In 1910, the creation period ended. The attacks of the disease became more severe.
He painted now extremely rarely, only sketches of his surrealistic visions.

In recent years, he wrote books: Pamphlet "Energy and Art, Civilized Errors
man "and research" genius. Who can, and who can not be a genius. "
During his life, the artist did not sell any of his paintings.
The last major picture "Ride on the shore" was written in Naples in 1909.

On June 20, 1919, the artist Chongwari died, as they write, from arthritis.
Relatives consulted with specialists, those assured them in full artistic
the insolvency of Tyivadar as an artist, and soon the paintings were put up for auction
not as works of art, but as slices of canvases. Random collector (random
is it?) Skid all the pictures in bulk for a meager amount, satisfied with the short-sighted (or all
same deceived) nephews.