Boromisza Tibor was born in the town of Bácsalmás (Hungary) on March 8, 1880, and lived until January 8, 1960, when he passed away in Szentendre, near Budapest. He first trained at the private school of Ferenczy Károly in Budapest in 1902 and then at the Artists’ Colony in Baia Mare starting in 1904. After a brief period spent in Rome in 1905, he traveled through Munich to Paris, where he soon became disillusioned with the teaching methods of the Académie Julian and studied sculpture at the Académie Colarossi. Upon returning to Baia Mare, Boromisza proved to be among the artists who abandoned the plein-air naturalist style, becoming part of the organizers of the “neo” movement. The artist thus became the formulator of these principles, advocating for reforms in the independent school, entering into conflicts with his guild colleagues, and consequently leaving the Colony in 1914.
The painting illustrates a late autumn where the brown leaves fall dead on the ground, enveloping it in a blood-red blanket. Burdened by the changing weather, the characters wander through the park, without lifting their eyes to a cold and unchanged sky of a new morning. The composition has three points of interest: the park path, the cottages and the violet hill, and the interweaving of scattered branches with tree trunks stripped of their rich crowns. The dominant point of interest is formed by the mass of winding branches traversed by the cold morning breeze. The warm color that envelops the work reminds us of the end of summer, which Boromisza Tibor manages to capture and at the same time to depict the true nature of an autumn in the city park.
BOROMISZA TIBOR