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Madhur Tankha
NEW DELHI: To commemorate the fifth death anniversary of the celebrated Hungarian-born painter Elizabeth Brunner, the Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre here is organising a month-long exhibition titled "Light Breaking Through" at its Janpath premises from this Wednesday. The exhibition will display paintings and sketches by Elizabeth Brunner together with those of her mother, the late Elizabeth Sass Brunner. These works of art were made in Hungary, India, Italy and Japan by the mother-daughter duo for whom every brushstroke was a step towards divinity. Both represented the same longing for truth and desire for expressing eternal spiritual values. Christ, Shiva and Buddha appeared in their paintings as sources of eternal inspiration, a victory over cruelty and illusion. At the invitation of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore the duo came all the way from Hungary to India in 1930. Elizabeth Brunner became known in the country as an eminent portrait-painter of the National Movement. After her mother's demise, she held a series of exhibitions, the most famous of which was during the 1956 Buddha Jayanti celebrations in New Delhi. The paintings of the Brunners have also been exhibited several times in Hungary. Their works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery, Budapest, and museums of Nagykanizsa, Sumeg and Kecskemet. The long and fruitful life of this artist par excellence spanned almost the whole of the 20th Century. She witnessed the two World Wars and British rule in India. She shared the same feelings as those who fought for India's freedom and broke down on seeing its Partition. For her outstanding works of art in her long and illustrious career Elizabeth Brunner won the hearts of many art lovers and was also honoured with a galaxy of prestigious national and international awards. She passed away in India on March 2, 2001.
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