Pantocrator

He studied art in Prague and Budapest, then worked as an art teacher and later as head of department at the Teacher Training College in Szeged until his retirement in 1974. His independent oeuvre was presented in exhibitions in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1989, the Christian Museum hosted an exhibition of his works devoted exclusively to religious themes. His main subjects are the Pantocrator — Christ as Ruler of the World — the Annunciation, and the Crucifixion. His austere, essential choice of themes is matched by a restrained and carefully measured visual language. The artist reduces his means to a minimum, yet this economy gives rise to a sense of infinity.Through his distinctive handling of colour, carefully composed colour relationships, and subtle use of reflections, he creates a weightless, timeless pictorial space that evokes infinite transcendent reality. (Ildikó Kontsek, 2015)

Provenance

Gift of the Artist, 1988

Exhibitions

• 1989 Esztergom, Keresztény Múzeum
• 2015 Budapest, Újlipótvárosi Klub- Galéria,
• 2015 Esztergom, Kákonyi Galéria
• 2015 St. Pölten, Diözesamuseum (Meisterwerke aus dem Keresztény Múzeum Esztergom)

Bibliography

• Wolfgang Huber (szerk.): Meisterwerke aus dem Keresztény Múzeum; kiáll.kat; Sankt Pölten 2015, 173 (Kontsek Ildikó)
• Fischer Ernő 1914-2002. szerk.: Szigyártó Gyöngyi, Budapest, Fischer Ernő Alapítvány, 2012.
• Kontsek Ildikó: Megtestesülés - Megváltás - Ítélet. Alapvető teológiai témák Fischer Ernő (1914-2002) festészetében. in: "Kincseiből régit, újat" Ünnepi kötet Gaál Endre 70. születésnapjára. szerk. Frankó Tamás, Esztergom, 2016, 161-170.