Villa Vaszary
It
might be, perhaps, a bohemian weekend trip, the artistic life of Tata -
"a small Weinmar" as Károly Lyka, the great art historian put it
- or just the lover's search for nest that first brought János Vaszary,
the young but renowned painter to Tata. Two years after his wedding the
villa, designed by the congenial architect Ede Thoroczkay Wigand, was finished.
From that time on a series of picture were born, inspired by the landscape
and the gardens. It was this town where the artist returned after his travels
to Italy and Spain. Although he died in Pest his body lies here in the
cementery in Almás Street: "Waiting for the joyful day of resurrection"
- as it is engraved on his gravestone.
In the 1960s a successor, an artist, who - like Vaszary - also settled
in Tata, drew forth the old printing block and prepared a new proof: he
established a Vaszary Club in order to keep the painter's memory fresh.
At present, among others, a school and his statue in it, treasure the artist's
memory. His fame and name have already risen from the dead.
