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August 2025 - Artwork of the Month
August 2025 - Artwork of the Month
August 2025 - Artwork of the Month

For the "Artwork of the Month" in August, we have chosen one of the highlights of the exhibition The Glory of Beauty: the painting Big Bubble by Austrian visual artist Franziska Maderthaner.

The large-scale painting evokes the diversity of the summer months, the sunny atmosphere, the school holidays, the waterfront, and the play of refracted light on the waves. In front of a vast abstract background created with large, painterly, and free gestures, one can discern a finely rendered bubble. On its surface, rays of light appear as if refracted through a prism, and within it, a female figure can be seen. Amid the interplay of seemingly random colours and lines, the walking figure - of which only the torso and one half-raised arm are visible - becomes both prominent and enigmatic.

In addition to Franziska Maderthaner, the exhibition features significant works by three other Austrian artists - Eduard Angeli, Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg, and Johann Berger - on view until 24 August in the 5th floor exhibition hall of the Pesti Vigadó.