Back to the future

Our exhibition is occasioned by the centenary of the establishment of Szentendre’s Old Artist Colony, yet our focus is on not so much the colony itself as its context, i.e. the town and the society that constituted Szentendre in the 1920s. We consequently address the shaping of the town’s image, apropos of the extension of the Town Hall and the artists who exhibited there; the flood, which devastated the town again in 1926, calls for a discussion of the relationship between the town and its natural surroundings; and as we remember the Catholic Circle that was established in 1926, we take a look at how local society transformed in ethnic and religious terms, and how the citizenry began to organize itself.