JPM Martyn–Lantos Museum

4 Káptalan street, Pécs
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Master and outstanding student, Martyn Ferenc and Lantos Ferenc - their works can be viewed together in one place, within a building specifically dedicated to them.

Martyn Ferenc (Kaposvár, 1899 – Pécs, 1986) sculptor, painter, graphic artist, illustrator. A defining figure of modern Hungarian fine arts, the school-founding master and organizing personality of artistic life in South Transdanubia. Before World War II, he spent many years in Paris and traveled throughout Western Europe: he built connections and became thoroughly acquainted with the most advanced avant-garde movements. Following the war, he was one of the most important domestic representatives and developers of non-figurative trends. In 1974, a memorial museum opened in Pécs from works donated to the city and the Janus Pannonius Museum. The permanent exhibition presenting Martyn Ferenc's art can be seen today at Káptalan u. 4, and offers the most comprehensive cross-section of his painting and sculptural oeuvre to date.

Lantos Ferenc (Pécs, 1929 – Balatonberény, 2014) – his painting and art teaching activity was a continuer and renewer of the naturalistic, abstract and constructive tradition of 20th-century Hungarian art. His master was Martyn Ferenc. He studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (1947–1950, 1964) and at the Pécs Teacher Training College (1950–1952). He created the fine arts department of the Pécs Art Grammar School and the Martyn Ferenc Art Free School of the Apáczai Educational Center. Besides these and several visual workshops, he taught at the Pécs Technical College and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pécs. He was a Kossuth Prize winner and honorary citizen of Pécs. He was one of the most significant creators of open painting and concrete painting in the 1960s. By the end of the decade, through his new art forms and the industrial reproduction of his works, he became the pioneer and first practitioner of the concept of visual culture. In connection with this, he developed an individual visual language whose elements and operations became the foundations of a system-based variational image-creating method and creative visual education program. From his structural thinking emerged his painting's communion with other arts, which defined his musical and calligraphic works that simultaneously unfolded color relationships, and his integrative art education program developed at the turn of the 1970s-80s. Among his numerous domestic and international solo and group exhibitions, the exhibitions presenting the periods of his art (1970, 1983, 1992) and his 2009 retrospective exhibition stand out, as well as his didactic exhibition series titled Nature-Vision-Creation (1972–1977). His works are permanent participants in exhibitions presenting Hungarian constructivist art throughout Europe. (Source: Keserü Katalin: Lantos, Pécs, 2010)

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