Nemes Endre Museum

The Nemes Endre Museum is one of the museums of Pécs at 5 Káptalan Street. In 1983, the painter Endre Nemes, born in Pécsvárad, donated 250 works to a museum to be established. The permanent exhibition of this material was opened in 1985. Endre Nemes (1909-1985) studied at the Academy of Painting in Prague and lived in Sweden from 1940 until his death. His art is determined by abstract and surrealistic visual elements. His pictures are made with fine care and have an inviting power. All elements of their carefully constructed composition are virtually all real, yet they appear in an unrealistic situation. The works of Endre Nemes suggest a cold, mechanized worldview, as if they were a projection of the fear of a future inhuman or mechanized human life. The museum is housed in a Baroque canon house built in the mid-1700s (on medieval grounds). The two staircase glass windows were designed by Ádám Kéri and György Buczkó according to the plans of Endre Nemes. The most notable pieces in the collection are: The Reveal of the Night (1938), The Three Friends (1944), The Defamed House (1967) and Captured by the Rattlesnake (1977).