József Egry Memorial Museum (emlékmúzeum), Badacsonytomaj

The house of the great painter József Egry who immortalised Lake Balaton and Badacsony so often is today a memorial museum. The development in Egry's style of landscape painting can be traced from the first painting of the Lake Balaton of 1916.

The museum was created from the painter's humble house to which the building of the adjacent gallery was added. The cramped 30-square metre area was once simultaneously a kitchen, a living space, a villa for the family and a puritan studio for the painter.

Today it is home to the exhibition about the painter's life. Visitors can observe the changes in the way he painted landscapes, how over time his colours gradually became lighter starting from the first pictures of Lake Balaton from 1916 to the 'Fishermen on Balaton' from 1923, a fine example depicting the noble unity of both water and figures, and nature and man.

The pantheist harmony which shines through his painting from the 1920-30's and marks his mature period can be observed on his main works placed in the two-storey gallery attached to the original building: Man with donkey (Szamaras ember), St Christopher at the Lake Balaton (Szent Kristóf a Balatonnál), View over Fonyód (Kilátás Fonyód felé), and other luminous pictures of Lake Balaton.

His art is closest to the expressive post-Nagybánya school of landscape art which is itself a chapter in Hungarian painting.