Samu Bortsok - Artist Info

About Samu Bortsok

  • Biography

    Börtsök, Samu Tápiószele, 1881 -1931, Budapest

    Samu Börtsök was the student of István Réti at the Colony of Artists in Nagybánya. Later in winter in 1905 he worked in the private school of Károly Ferenczy in Budapest. In 1906 Börtsök took a short study-tour in Par, Munich and Vienna. He had his first exhibition in Mucsarnok in 1907.

    Since 1908 he lived permanently in Nagybánya. He was one of the firsts artists who received his own atelier on the colony. Since 1911 he had been the managing director of the freshly established Association of Artist in Nagybánya. Through his pictures he intended to paint the "Sunday of the Nature" immortalizing the solemnity of view of the Nature.

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