A Csonka Templon, Debriczen, Hungary (c. 1927): Art, History and Details

A Csonka Templon, Debriczen, Hungary (c. 1927) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Kálmán Kubinyi (American, 1906–1973).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Locally known as the Csonkatemplom, the Debrecen Reformed Church was first constructed in the late 17th century and remodeled in the 1870s. Kubinyi created this image when he visited his uncle in Hungary to learn new printmaking techniques. The artist includes a calm street scene below the church tower: a small figure, perhaps a child, sits outside a shop front while a worker sweeps the street. Free of automobiles and trains, the image conveys a sense of nostalgia.

Object facts

• Title: A Csonka Templon, Debriczen, Hungary
• Date: c. 1927
• Creator attribution: Kálmán Kubinyi (American, 1906–1973)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Print
• Technique: lithograph
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1954.554

A detail from the museum

The Csonkatemplom originally had a large domed helmet, but it was destroyed in the early 1900s by a windstorm and never rebuilt.

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Kálmán Kubinyi Entry Card to 1928 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.