NYILASI, Tibor Nyilasi, Obituary

 

 
Nyilasi TiborNYILASI, Tibor – On Monday, December 21, 2015 in Hamilton General Hospital, Tibor Nyilasi peacefully departed from this
world cradled in the arms of his beloved daughter Lydia after a three year struggle against heart failure.

Tibor was a visual artist, art teacher, and a mentor to many generations of art enthusiasts. His art was produced over six decades in Canada after he fled Hungary in 1956. Staunchly rooted in the academic tradition, his phenomenal creative output included mosaics, paintings, and drawings of dancers, musicians, and ordinary people in coffee shops, markets, and bus queues. 

In 2012, Tibor was nominated for the City of Hamilton’s Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts.

Tibor was the loving father of two daughters, Etelka (Edmonton) and Lydia (Ottawa); also the beloved brother of Maria Darvasi (Kesztolc, Hungary).

Tibor was a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and taught high school art courses in Hamilton for 29 years. He taught anatomy for artists, figure drawing, watercolour, oil painting, sculpture, display art and fashion drawing. He also taught evening courses at Dundas Valley School of Art and had over 40 one-man shows of his own work both in Canada and internationally.

His paintings, drawings, and commissioned murals can be found around the world, from Germany to Japan.

Tibor Nyilasi faithfully ran a children’s summer art camp in his birthplace, Kesztolc, Hungary, for ten years. He was a parishioner at St. Stephen’s of Hungary Church, where he created mosaic murals for both the church and its social hall. Tibor loved operatic singing. As a young man, he was a member of the Canadian Opera Company chorus, and later participated in local choirs, most notably the Germania Club Chorus. He was also a committed member of the Lakeside Artists Pump House Association in
Grimsby.

Visitation at the FRISCOLANTI FUNERAL CHAPEL, 43 Barton Street East (near James) on Sunday, December 27, 2015 from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m., with vigil prayers at 3:45 p.m.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Stephen’s Hungarian Roman Catholic Church, 130 Barton Street East, Hamilton on Monday, December 28, 2015 at 11 a.m. Reception to follow.   All Tibor’s friends, associates, former students, and art collectors are sincerely welcome. After cremation, inurnment to follow in Tibor’s native village in Hungary.

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