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A special honour for two great Indo-Hungarian artists

A self-portrait by Elizabeth Brunner

NEW DELHI: To commemorate the birth centenary of Hungarian-Indian painter Elizabeth Brunner, the Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre in cooperation with the India International Centre is hosting a weeklong exhibition of paintings that opened at IIC Annexe here on Tuesday.

Titled “Infinite Journey”, the exhibition is showcasing the paintings of Elizabeth Brunner and her mother Elizabeth Sass Brunner. It displays a cross-section of the life and work of the two artists, representing almost all the important periods of their art.

The paintings on view are borrowed mostly from different private collections. By exhibiting the paintings of the mother and daughter duo, the Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre intends to create a unique opportunity for art connoisseurs to pay their homage to the two great Indo-Hungarian artists.

IIC Asia Project chairperson Kapila Vatsyayan inaugurated the exhibition.

Both the painters arrived in the country on the invitation of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Elizabeth Brunner became known as eminent portrait-painter of the great personalities of the national movement. She made excellent portraits of noted personalities like Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu and Indira Gandhi. She also excelled in painting rural people and scenes of country life.

After the death of her mother in 1950, she moved to Delhi and had a series of exhibitions, the most famous of which was the Buddha Jayanti celebrations in New Delhi. In 1988 she visited her native country where she was awarded the Order of Banner of the People's Republic of Hungary. Elizabeth Brunner passed away on May 2, 2001, in Delhi. Her paintings are in the greatest Indian public collections in Delhi, Baroda, Varanasi, Kolkata and Santiniketan.

The exhibition will also be showcased at Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre's premises at 1/A Janpath here from April 7 to May 10.

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