Ervin Bossányi (3 March 1891 inRigyica /Riđica,Austria-Hungary – 11 July 1975 inEastcote in GreaterLondon,England) was a Hungarian artist, who worked mainly in northernGermany until hisemigration in 1934. He then started a new career as a notablestained glass artist inEngland.

Bossányi was born in a small village in southernAustria-Hungary and educated inBudapest. InWorld War I he was interned for five years inFrance. After the war he became a notable painter and sculptor inLübeck and (1929) inHamburg. A major work from this period is his fountain inBad Segeberg. 1934 he leftNazi Germany forEngland. Here he specialized with remarkable success instained glass.He made stained glass windows for theUniversity of London (Goldsmiths Library in theSenate House Library),Tate Gallery ("The Angel Blesses the Women Washing the Clothes"), theVictoria and Albert Museum ("Noli me tangere"), as well ascathedral glass for theYork Minster, the memorial chapel for PresidentWoodrow Wilson inWashington National Cathedral inWashington D.C. andCanterbury Cathedral. He also created the windows in the chapel atMichaelhouse inSouth Africa, and the stained glass window atUxbridge tube station in London.

• TheStained Glass Museum atEly Cathedral owns two windows Bossanyi made in his last year in Hamburg and which he took with him into emigration.
• Behnhaus, Lübeck - paintings

• Dagmar Hayes:Ervin Bossanyi, the splendour of stained glass. Canterbury: Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, 1965.
• Abram Enns:Lübecker Jahre eines Malers 1919-1929 - Erwin Bossanyi zum 80. Geburtstag in:Der Wagen 1972 S.138 ff mit umfangreichen Abbildungen
• Abram Enns:Kunst und Bürgertum, S. 199 ff, Lübeck 1978,ISBN 3-7672-0571-8
• Geoffrey Fouquet: Ervin Bossanyi. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum in association with the Bossanyi Trustees, 1979.
• Bossányi Ervin 1891 - 1975 emlékkiállítása. Magyar Nemzeti Galéria 1980 április - május.Türr István Múzeum, Baja 1980 június - augusztus / [a kiállítást rendezte ... Szinyei Merse Anna]. Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (National Gallery), 1980.
• Friedrich Gleiss:Jüdisches Leben in Segeberg vom 18.-20. Jahrhundert, S. 116-126, Norderstedt 2002,ISBN 3-8311-3215-1
• Heiner Stiebeling:Unbekannter Bossanyi: 14 Aquarelle zuPaul Claudels Verkündigung, in:Der Wagen 1984, S. 81-98 mit Abb.
• Jo Bossanyi:Leben und Arbeit des Künstlers Ervin Bossanyi von 1920 bis 1934 in Norddeutschland. Lübeck: Bibliothek der Hansestadt Lübeck 1999 (Veröffentlichungen der Stadtbibliothek Lübeck: Reihe 3; Bd. 5)
• Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Vol. XIII, 1996, Seite 198

• Bossanyi at the Tate Gallery London
• Bossanyi The Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
• "The life and career of Ervin Bossányi". Archived fromthe original on 4 January 2018. Retrieved17 November 2019.

• 1891 births
• 1975 deaths
• British stained glass artists and manufacturers
• People associated with the University of London
• 20th-century Hungarian painters
• 20th-century Hungarian male artists
• 20th-century Hungarian sculptors
• Académie Julian alumni
• Hungarian male painters

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