251:. The leaders of the puppet state supported his initiative to start the Uzhhorod College of Fine Arts in 1945. He was rector of the short-lived institution, director of the Uzhhorod School of Applied Arts from 1946 to 1949 and teacher from 1949 to 1955. He was one of the founders of the Transcarpathian branch of the Ukrainian Association of Fine Arts, and was its organiser and first president from 1946 to 1949. This organization became the successor of the Association of Artists of Transcarpathia. He wanted to create a
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365:"Look around you and after your daily death, you will rise every morning into eternal beauty and your soul will be one with the one who created you and you will carry within you the pure humanity of the true man and you will feel that you carry within you God, the universe and the divine wonders of existence."
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Transcarpathia's intellectual heritage. After his death, it took a decade and a half for official art history to rehabilitate him. The first album dedicated to his work was published in 1972 (Pavlov, V.: Erdelyi Album (in Cyrillic), Kiev, 1972).All of
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Transcarpathian school could hardly have developed. According to Katalin Sz. Kürti.
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Hungarian. László Balla transcribed Erdélyi's quotes from the manuscript owned by Béla Erdélyi's widow, who was still alive at the time, and some of his notebooks were preserved by engineer
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