(Social) Realism: Hungary

Géza MÉSZÖLY (1844 - 1887)
MÉSZÖLY Géza (1844, Sárbogárd - 1887, Jobbágyi) Bécsben és Münchenben elsajátította az akadémikus tájfestészet módszereit, hazatérve azonban stílusa megváltozott. Bejárta az országot, és szürkés tónusú, leheletfinom párával bevont képein különös szeretettel ábrázolta a Balaton vidékét és a Tisza menti tájakat. Festményeinek szereplői parasztok, halászok, akiknek életét bensőséges hangulattal, idillikus felfogásban jelenítette meg.
(MÉSZÖLY Géza (1844, Sárbogárd - 1887, Jobbágyi) mastered the methods of academic landscape painting in Vienna and Munich, but returning home, his style changed. He travelled the country, and portrayed the Lake Balaton region and the scenery along the River Tisza with candour in his paintings of gray tones, veiled by a fine thin vapour. The figures in his paintings are peasants and fishermen whose lives he showed in an intimate atmosphere and idyllic representation.)
http://kapcsolat.hu/blog/meszoly_geza_1844_sarbogard_-_1887_jobbagyi















Mihály Munkácsy (1844 – 1900)
Mihály Munkácsy (originally Michael von Lieb;; February 20, 1844 – May 1, 1900) was a Hungarian painter, who lived in Paris and earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large scale biblical paintings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mih%C3%A1ly_Munk%C3%A1csy
http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%96
http://www.mihalymunkacsy.org/
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9530
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Lajos Deak-Ebner (1850-1934)
Tanulmányait Münchenben és Párizsban végezte. Itt ismerkedett meg a francia festészettel, aminek hatására Barbizonba költözött. Megismerkedett Paál Lászlóval és Munkácsy Mihállyal, akiknek stílusa meghatározó lett később művészetében. 1874-től több évig a Szolnoki Művésztelep rendszeres lakója, alkotója volt, részt vett a telep megalakításában is. Festészetére jellemző a realisztikus ábrázolásmód, ami főleg a Szolnokon festett képein lelhető fel. A paraszti élet hiteles ábrázolója volt. 1887-1922 között a Budapesti Női Festőiskola vezetője. 1890-1890-ben Lotz Károllyal közösen megfestik a Tihanyi Apátság freskóit. 1895-1899 közt a Műcsarnok falképeit festette meg.
(He studied in Munich and Paris, where he encountered French painting, which influenced him to move to Barbizon. He met PAÁL László and MUNKÁCSY Mihály, whose style later became dominant in his art. From 1874, he was a regular inhabitant and artist of the Szolnok Colony of Artists, also took part in its founding. His art is characterised by realistic representation, which can be mainly found in his Szolnok paintings. He depicted peasant life authentically. Between 1887- 1922 he was the head of the Budapest Painting School for Women. In 1889-90, together with LOTZ Károly, they paint the frescoes of the Abbey of Tihany. Between 1895- 1899 he painted the murals of the Műcsarnok.)
http://enciklopedia.fazekas.hu/tarsmuv/eklekt_large/image060.jpg
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%C3%A1k-%C3%89bner_Lajos
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Baron László Mednyánszky (1852 - 1919)
Baron László Mednyánszky (23 April 1852 - 17 April 1919), or Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky was a Hungarian painter in the Impressionist tradition. Despite an aristocratic background, he spent most of his life moving around Europe working as an artist. Mednyánszky spent considerable periods in seclusion but mingled with people across society - in the aristocracy, art world, peasantry and army - many of whom became the subjects of his paintings. His most important works depict scenes of nature and poor, working people, particularly from his home region in Upper Hungary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Medny%C3%A1nszky
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Medny%C3%A1nszky
http://artportal.hu/files/imagecache/ill_big/files/kepillusztracio/Medny%C3%A1nszky%C3%81gr%C3%B3lszakadt.jpg















Károly Ferenczy (1862 – 1917)
Károly Ferenczy (Vienna, February 8, 1862 – Budapest, March 18, 1917 ) was a Hungarian Impressionist painter. He was one of the leading artists of the Nagybánya school of painting. He studied law and economics. He began to deal with painting at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1889, he moved back to Hungary, to the town of Szentendre. Between 1893 and 1896 he lived in Munich with his family: There he joined the circle of Simon Hollósy: with whom he moved to Nagybánya in 1896 and became the leading painter of the artist colony. After 1906 he moved to Budapest and became the professor of the College of Fine Arts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1roly_Ferenczy
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János Thorma (1870 – 1937)
János Thorma (24 April 1870 – 5 December 1937) was a Hungarian painter. A representative figure of the Nagybánya artists' colony, his work progressed from naturalism, to historical subjects, to romantic realism to a Post-Impressionism of a style specific to Nagybánya (Baia Mare from 1918)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Thorma
























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