Gyorgy Boschan - Paintings (1918 - 1984)

Painter and professor George Boschan was born in Subotica in 1918, in the family of Samuel and Ela Boschan. He was a student of the Subotica high school and cartoonist of the Subotica satirical newspaper "Grimasz". He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1946, and then special courses in the class of Ljubo Babić in Zagreb and Marko Celebonović in Belgrade. He was a member of ULUS and one of the founding members of the group "Samostalni" and "Belgrade Group". As a painter, he is preoccupied with the problem of the relationship between man and society, family in the narrower sense, patriotism. As a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, during his teaching and teaching work for the subject of painting from 1949 to 1978, he participated in the constitution of the work of this higher education art institution, including in the drafting of the first Statute of the Academy (1957). According to Aleksa Celebonović, he understood his role as an interpreter and instigator of general cultural upliftment, and not only as a transmitter of technical knowledge or as an example for stylistic emulation. Gyorgy Boschan is the winner of several awards, such as Art colony Ecka and Forum awards. He died in Belgrade in 1984. In 1987, Dr. Nada Boschan donated twenty-six of his paintings to the City Museum of Subotica, thus establishing the Gyorgy Boschan Gift Collection in the painter's hometown. In addition to his origin, Gyorgy Boschan is also connected to Subotica in many ways through his professional involvement, primarily in painting and exhibitions. He exhibited in Subotica for the first time in 1938 at the Exhibition of Young Artists of Yugoslav Hungarians, then already as a student of the Belgrade Academy of Arts. The members of the Boschan family in Subotica had an important role in the development of chess as a sports discipline, and in the revolutionary and Zionist movement, as well as in the field of art in the period between the two world wars. Many of the family became victims of the Holocaust. By getting to know the roots and beginnings of Gyorgy Boschan's activities, we can carry out a revaluation of his art and connect it both with the personal history of the artist and with the current events of the art and politics of the time in which he lived. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with the study of Dr. Olga Kovačev Ninkov Gyorgy Boschan AND SUBOTICA, and the study of Ljubica Vuković Dulić Gyorgy Boschan – ACADEMY STUDENT AND PROFESSOR. Among the entire catalog, a list of works by Gyorgy Boschan in public collections is included, of which works from the City Museum in Bečej, the City Museum of Senta, the City Museum of Subotica, the Jewish History Museum in Belgrade, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Contemporary Gallery are on display. Subotica and Contemporary Galleries Zrenjanin.