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Zsolnay
Family
and
Factory
History
Exhibition
The
Zsolnay
family
and
factory
history
exhibition
gives
an
insight
to
the
visitor
of
the
most
precious
moments
of
the
life
of
the
industrial
dynasty
starting
with
the
simplest
industrial
ceramic
items
to
the
most
decorated
ornamental
pieces
and
the
life-ch
In
the
beginnings...
The
history
of
the
factory
is
attached
to
the
main
stages
of
the
history
of
Hungary.
Its
founding
dates
back
to
the
Bach
period,
it
lived
its
heyday
during
the
period
of
the
Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy;
that
was
the
time
of
dualism.
World
War
I
and
the
peacemaking
processes
that
followed
broke
the
fast
development.
The
era
between
the
2
world
wars
was
the
time
of
a
new
beginning
and
of
modernisation.
Nationalisation
brought
the
next
turning
point
first
by
breaking
with
and
later
by
returning
to
the
older
traditions
with
artistic
and
technical
experiments.
The
young
industrial
artists
established
a
new
and
modern
form
language
with
the
products
of
the
factory
while
they
also
sensed
a
strong
request
for
the
keeping
of
the
traditional
techniques
and
forms.
Zsolnay:
family
and
factory
The
history
of
the
factory
is
the
exciting
and
colourful
story
of
the
Zsolnay
family
too.
The
figure
of
Vilmos
Zsolnay;
the
genious
potter
lives
vividly
in
public
consciousness.
The
exhibition
commemorates
those
without
the
work
of
whom
this
rich
heritage
could
not
have
come
to
life.
The
son
of
Vilmos;
MiklĂłs
Zsolnay
was
a
merchant
and
a
businessman;
he
made
sure
that
the
family
assets
stay
in
the
hands
of
the
family
members
and
that
the
factory
kept
its
leading
position
on
the
market.
The
designer
works
of
JĂşlia
Zsolnay
are
well
known
but
she
is
less
known
for
her
paintings.
Her
older
sister
Teréz
had
an
essential
role
in
the
collection
and
keeping
of
the
heritage.
Júlia’s
husband;
Tádé
Sikorski
wrote
his
name
in
the
great
book
of
the
factory
not
solely
as
a
designer,
but
as
an
architect
also.
Teréz’s
husband;
Jakab
Mattyasovszky
supported
his
father-in-law’s
inventions
as
a
geologist.
Those
family
members
whose
activities
were
less
known
also
had
essential
roles
in
the
development
of
the
business.
The
exhibition
follows
through
the
efforts
of
the
grandchildren
they
had
in
order
to
keep
the
factory
running.
Without
their
technological
inventions
we
could
probably
hardly
talk
about
an
operative
factory
today.
From
the
ornamental
pieces
to
the
porcelain
insulations
The
factory
used
to
be
the
largest
ceramics
manufacture
of
the
Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy
until
the
turn
of
the
last
century
where
household
and
ornamental
pieces,
building
ceramics,
fireplace
tiles,
porcelain
insulations
and
stoneware
pipes
were
produced.
There
was
another
factory
in
operation
in
Ă–v
Street
in
Budapest
starting
from
1902.
It
was
named
the
Budapest
Porcelain
and
Faience
Co.
that
primarily
produced
paving
tiles
and
insulations
and
that
kept
its
independence
in
the
hands
of
the
family
until
its
nationalisation
in
1948.
Innovators
and
inventions
The
inventions
of
Vilmos
Zsolnay
had
a
great
role
in
the
success
of
the
factory.
From
among
these
the
porcelain
faience
and
the
eosin
technique
brought
world
fame
to
the
Zsolnays
whereas
the
pyrogranite
inspired
a
whole
architectural
trend
that
is
the
Hungarian
seccession
or
art
nouveau
on
the
turn
of
the
last
century.
We
shall
not
forget
the
hundreds
of
workers
either
from
among
whom
many
added
to
the
artistic
and
business
successes
of
the
factory
through
generations
or
who
kept
the
great
professional
quality
even
following
the
nationalisation
that
has
always
been
the
key
to
the
success.
One
of
these
people
was
István
Kovács
who
did
not
only
keep
the
technique
of
eosin
and
revived
it
at
the
end
of
the
1950s.
This
was
the
artistic
tradition
that
inspired
the
modern
form
language
and
the
new
workers
and
industrial
artists:
Antal
Gazder,
János
Török,
György
Fürtös
and
Judit
Nádor
from
the
1960s
who
are
known
as
the
classical
figures
of
Hungarian
design
today.
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