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* Béla Apáti Abkarovics - Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1888–1957) *
Béla Nagy Abodi Béla Nagy Abodi (Hungarian: ''Abodi Nagy Béla''; 13 July 1918 – 9 December 2012) was a Hungarians, Hungarian Painting, painter, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca. He studied in the class of Camil Ressu at the Academia d ...
- Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1918–2012) * Mór Adler - Hungarian painter (1826–1902) * Gyula Aggházy - Hungarian painter and teacher (1850–1919) * Tivadar Alconiere -
Austro-Hungarian Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military and diplomatic alliance, it consist ...
painter (1797–1865) *
Friedrich von Amerling Friedrich Ritter von Amerling (14 April 1803 – 14 January 1887) was an Austrian portrait painter in the court of Franz Joseph I of Austria, Franz Josef. He was born in Vienna and was court painter between 1835 and 1880. With Ferdinand Georg ...
- Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (1803–1887) *
Margit Anna Margit Anna (born Margit Sichermann; 23 December 1913 – 3 June 1991) was a twentieth century Hungarian painter. Her artwork was considered abstract expressionism, utilizing bold colors and textures along with influences of surrealism. Her larg ...
- Hungarian painter (1913–1991) * István Árkossy - Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1943–)


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Ottó Baditz Ottó Baditz, (19 March 1849, in Križevci, Gornji Petrovci, Tótkeresztúr – 21 April 1936, in Magyarkeresztúr) was a Hungarian painter and illustrator who specialized in scenes with women and children. Biography During the 1860s, he studie ...
- Hungarian painter. He painted mostly genre pictures in an academic style (1849–1936) *
Endre Bálint Endre Bálint (1914 – 1986, in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter and graphic designer. He was one of the most significant figures of modern, avant-garde Hungarian art. His career path He was born in 1914 into an intellectual Jewish family. H ...
- Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1914–1986) * Rezső Bálint - Hungarian
landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...
(1885–1945) *
Pál Balkay Pál Balkay (1785 –1846) was a Hungarian painter and teacher best known for his portrait of ''The Sister and Brother''. He was born in Tiszaörs. Following his studies in Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of ...
- Hungarian painter and teacher (1785–1846) * László Balogh - Hungarian painter *
Ernő Bánk Ernő Bánk (1883, Szalmatercs - 1962, Budapest) was a Hungarian painter and teacher noted for his miniature portraits. He was a member of the Association of Hungarian Watercolour and Pastel Painters. Bánk trained as a secondary school teacher ...
- Hungarian
teacher A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. w ...
painter noted for his miniature portraits (1883–1962) *
Miklós Barabás Miklós Barabás (10 February 1810, in Márkosfalva, Háromszék County, Hungary – 12 February 1898, in Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian painter. He is mostly known for his portrait paintings, including a famous portrait of a young F ...
- Hungarian painter noted for his portraits (1810–1898) *
Jenő Barcsay Jenő Barcsay (14 January 1900 – 2 April 1988) was a Hungarian painter with Armenian ancestry.Gudenus János József: Örmény eredetű magyar nemesi családok genealógiája Erdélyi Örmény Gyökerek, Budapest, 2000 His life Born in Katon ...
- Hungarian painter (1900–1988) *
Andor Basch Andor Basch (Budapest, May 19, 1885 – Budapest, June 24,1944) was a Hungarian painter whose works have been featured in the Hungarian National Gallery. He is the son of painter Gyula Basch. His life He was born into a wealthy Jewish family ...
- Hungarian painter (1885–1944) *
Gyula Basch Gyula Basch (April 9, 1851 - January 2, 1928), was a Hungarian painter. Basch was born in Budapest. After completing his studies at the Gymnasium (school), gymnasium, he attended the polytechnicinstitute at Zurich (1867–72), where he obtained ...
- Hungarian painter (1859–1928) *
Gyula Batthyány Gyula Batthyány ( Ikervár, 10 May 1887 – Budapest, 20 January 1959) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist whose works are in the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery as well as other museums around the world. Early life His f ...
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Gyula Benczúr Gyula Benczúr (28 January 1844, Nyíregyháza – 16 July 1920, Szécsény) was a Hungarian painter and art teacher. An "outstanding exponent of academicism", he specialized in portraits and historical scenes. He is "considered one of the grea ...
- Hungarian painter and
pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...
(1844–1920) *
Lajos Berán Lajos Berán: Saint Stephen of Hungary on the 5 pengő coin 1938 Lajos Berán (1882 – 1943 in Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist noted for his medal work. Notable coins include his 1915 96-mm cast bronze War Medal and 1925 reverse d ...
- Hungarian sculptor and
artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...
noted for his medal work (1882–1943) *
Róbert Berény Róbert Berény (18 March 1887 – 10 September 1953) was a Hungary, Hungarian Painting, painter, one of the ''avant-garde'' group known as The Eight (Nyolcak), The Eight who introduced cubism and expressionism to Hungarian art in the early twen ...
- Hungarian painter (1887–1953) *
Aurél Bernáth Aurél Bernáth (1895–1982) was a Hungarian painter and art theorist. He studied at Nagybánya with István Réti and János Thorma. Bernath fought as a soldier in the First World War and moved to Vienna in 1921. Bernath's painting style was ...
- Hungarian expressionist painter (1895–1982) *
László Beszédes László Beszédes (1874–1922) was a Hungarian sculptor, noted for his small bronze and terracotta statuettes, and his speciality of creating figurines of farmers. Beszédes was born in Feled in 1874. He attended the School of Industrial Desi ...
- Hungarian sculptor, noted for his small
bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...
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terracotta Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta (; ; ), is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramic OED, "Terracotta""Terracotta" MFA Boston, "Cameo" database fired at relatively low temperatures. It is therefore a term used for earthenware obj ...
statuettes A figurine (a diminutive form of the word ''figure'') or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with cla ...
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Sándor Bihari Sándor Bihari (19 May 1855, Nucet, Rézbánya – 28 March 1906, Budapest) was a Hungarian Genre art, genre painter. Life Born to a Jewish family, Sándor spent his childhood in Nagyvárad. Originally, he worked with his father as a decorat ...
(1855–1906) * Tamás Bimbó - Hungarian landscape painter (1968-) * Zsolt Bodoni *
Pál Böhm Pál (Paul) Böhm (28 December 1839, Nagyvárad - 29 March 1905, Munich) was a Hungarian Genre art, genre painter. Life and work He first studied drawing with his father, who was a maintenance engineer at the bishop's manor. After finishing ele ...
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József Borsos Jozsef Borsos (21 December 1821, in Veszprém – 19 August 1883, in Budapest) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian portrait painter and photographer; best known for his Genre art, genre paintings in the Biedermeier style. Life and work His father ...
- Hungarian portrait painter and photographer (1821–1883) * Miklós Borsos - Hungarian sculptor (1906–1990) *
Sándor Bortnyik Sándor Bortnyik (July 3, 1893 – December 31, 1976) was a Hungarian painter and graphic designer. His work was greatly influenced by Cubism, Expressionism and Constructivism (art), Constructivism. Life Born in Târgu Mureș, Transylvania ...
- Hungarian painter and
graphic designer A graphic designer is a practitioner who follows the discipline of graphic design, either within companies or organizations or independently. They are professionals in design and visual communication, with their primary focus on transforming ...
(1893–1976) * Samu Börtsök (1881–1931) * Gabor Breznay *
József Breznay József Breznay (20 September 1916 Budapest – 18 February 2012 Budapest) was a Hungarian painter. Biography 1934-39: studied at the University of Fine Arts Budapest. His Masters were Bertalan Karlovszky, Ágost Benkhard, Rezső Burgha ...
* Károly Brocky *
Sándor Brodszky Sándor Brodszky (Tóalmás, 1819 - Budapest, 1901) was a Hungarian painter whose works are featured in the Hungarian National Gallery The Hungarian National Gallery (also known as Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, ), was established in 1957 as the n ...
* Lajos Bruck


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István Csók István Csók (13 February 1865, Sáregres – 1 February 1961, Budapest) was a Hungarian Impressionist painter. Although he was born in Transdanubia, his narrower homeland was not a hill country, but the flat greens of the Sárrét, the ...
- Hungarian
Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
painter (1865–1961) *
Lajos Csontó Lajos Csontó is a Hungarian people, Hungarian artist. Lajos Csontó was born in Budapest in 1964. He received his printmaker diploma from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts in 1990, and then he continued his studies at the DLA courses. I ...
- Hungarian painter *
Béla Czóbel Béla Czóbel (4 September 1883 – 30 January 1976) was a Hungarian painter, known for his association with The Eight in the early 20th century in Budapest. They were known for introducing Post-Impressionist styles into Hungary, in addition t ...
- Hungarian painter (1883–1976) * Tibor Czorba - painter (1906–1985)


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* Adrienn Henczné Deák (1890–956) *
Valéria Dénes Valéria Dénes (1877 in Budapest – 1915 in Pécs) was a Hungary, Hungarian painter. The wife of Sándor Galimberti, she was one of the first Hungarian cubism, cubists. References Further reading * * * * External links

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(1877–1915) * Gyula Derkovits * Balázs Diószegi - Hungarian painter primarily using the colour black (1914–1999) *
László Dombrovszky László Dombrovszky (born Stanislaw Dombrowski; 7 August 1894 – 30 April 1982) was a Russian painter. Family and artistic training He was born in Orhei, near Chișinău, Kishinev, Bessarabia (Moldavia, Eastern Moldova). His father, Sergej Dombr ...
- Hungarian painter (1894–1982) * János Donát - Hungarian painter (1744–1830) *
Géza Dósa Géza Dósa (1846–1871) was a Hungarian painter. He studied in Vienna and Munich between 1866 - 1869. His art was appreciated only decades after his death. His paintings are exhibited in the Hungarian National Gallery The Hungarian National ...
- Hungarian painter (1846–1871) *
Orshi Drozdik Orshi Drozdik (born 1946 in Hungary) is a feminist visual artist based in New York City. Her work consists of drawings, paintings, photographs, etchings, performances, videos, sculptures, installations, academic writings and fiction, that explore ...
- Hungarian
feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...
artist (1946–)


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József Egry József Egry (1883–1951) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian painter, considered a significant representative of Hungarian modernism. Life He was a self-taught painter. Spent a year in Paris with the help of Károly Lyka. From there he entered t ...
- Hungarian
modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...
painter (1883–1951)


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* Bogi Fabian - Hungarian painter who uses glow-in-the-dark techniques *
Adolf Fényes Adolf Fényes, originally Fischmann (29 April 1867 in Kecskemét – 14 March 1945 in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter of Jewish ancestry. He is best known for his cycle of paintings; ''The Life of a Poor Man'' and a series of still-lifes, done ...
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Béni Ferenczy Béni Ferenczy (18 June 1890 – 2 June 1967) was a Hungarian sculptor, medalist and graphic artist. Early life and education Béni Ferenczy was born in 1890 in Szentendre, Hungary, the second son of Károly Ferenczy and Olga Fialka, both ...
- Hungarian sculptor and graphic artist (1890–1967) *
Károly Ferenczy Károly Ferenczy (February 8, 1862 – March 18, 1917) was a Hungarian painter and leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony.Ilona Sármány-Parsons"Károly Ferenczy" Oxford Art Online He was among several artists who went to Munich for ...
- Hungarian painter (1862–1917) *
Noémi Ferenczy Noémi Ferenczy (18 June 1890 – 20 December 1957) was a Hungarian artist, best known for her tapestry designs. She wove her own tapestries, and was influenced by the Nagybánya art movement. She was born in Szentendre, the twin sister of sculpt ...
- Hungarian tapestry designer and weaver (1890–1957) *
Árpád Feszty Árpád Feszty (; 21 December 1856 – 1 June 1914) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian Painting, painter. He was born in the town of Ógyalla (then Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Hungary, now Hurbanovo, Slovakia). His ancestors were Ger ...
- Hungarian historical painter (1856–1914)


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* Tamás Galambos *
Ilka Gedő Ilka Gedő (26 May 192119 June 1985) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Her work survives decades of persecution and repression, first by the semi-fascist regime of the 1930s and 1940s and then, after a brief interval of relative freedom ...
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artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...
(1921–1985) * Ernő Grünbaum - Jewish Hungarian painter (1908–1944/45) *
Lajos Gulácsy Lajos Gulácsy (12 October 1882 – 21 February 1932) was a Hungarian painter with works collected by the Hungarian National Gallery. Heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, his rather dreamlike work is associated with Art Nouveau and Symbolism ...
* Jenő Gyárfás (1857–1925) *
Líviusz Gyulai Líviusz Gyulai (December 2, 1937 – March 16, 2021) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian graphic artist, printmaker, illustrator. Biography Born at Baraolt
- Hungarian graphic artist, printmaker, illustrator (1937–2021)


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* Simon Hantaï - influential painter using folding method (1922–2008) * Sam Havadtoy - neo-pop painter and interior designer (1952–) * Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl - historical and mythological painting (1860–1933) *
Simon Hollósy Simon Hollósy (2 February 1857 – 8 May 1918) was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism. Hollósy was not highly productive as an artist and was more im ...
- Hungarian painter of Armenian ancestry (1857-1918) * Istvan Horkay - Hungarian painter (1945–) *
Elmyr de Hory Elmyr de Hory (born Elemér Albert Hoffmann; April 14, 1906 – December 11, 1976) was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger. It is claimed he was responsible for producing over a thousand forgeries that were sold to reputable art galleries a ...
- Hungarian-born painter and Famous art forger (1906–1976)


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* Béla Iványi-Grünwald


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* Gyula Jakoby (1903–1985) *
Viktor de Jeney Viktor de Jeney (December 26, 1902 in Marosvásárhely, Transylvania – December 18, 1996 in St. Louis, Missouri)Theresa TigheViktor De Jeney, 93, Revolutionary, Dies St Louis Post-Dispatch, December 1996 was a Hungarian painter. Biograph ...
* Ferenc Joachim - Hungarian ( Magyar) painter of portraits and landscapes (1882–1964) * Zoltán Joó - Hungarian painter (1956–)


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Bertalan Karlovszky Bertalan Karlovszky (24 October 1858, Munkács – 11 April 1938, Budapest) was a Hungarian painter. Biography His parents moved to Budapest when he very young and he attended the public schools there. Showing no interest in a higher educatio ...
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Lajos Kassák Lajos Kassák (March 21, 1887 – July 22, 1967) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde, and translator. Self-taught, he became a writer within the socialist movement and published journa ...
- Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, and father of many modernisms (1887–1967) * Nándor Katona - painter (1864–1932) *
Isidor Kaufman Isidor Kaufmann (, ; 22 March 1853 in Arad – 1921 in Vienna) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to Genre works, genre painting, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe in search of sce ...
- Hungarian painter of
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Gusztáv Kelety Gusztáv Frigyes Kelety, originally Klette (13 December 1834, in Pozsony – 2 September 1902, in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter, graphic artist and art critic. Biography His father, Károly Klette, was a court painter and drawing instructor ...
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Dóra Keresztes Dóra Keresztes (born 3 October 1953, Budapest) Hungarian people, Hungarian Painting, painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and animated film director. Biography She graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, H ...
- Hungarian painter, printmaker,
illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicate ...
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graphic designer A graphic designer is a practitioner who follows the discipline of graphic design, either within companies or organizations or independently. They are professionals in design and visual communication, with their primary focus on transforming ...
and animated film director (1953–) *
Károly Kernstok Károly Kernstok (23 December 1873, in Budapest – 9 June 1940, in Budapest) was a Hungary, Hungarian painter. In the early twentieth century, he was known for being among the leading groups of Hungarian painters known as the "Neos" and The Ei ...
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Károly Kisfaludy Károly Kisfaludy (5 February 1788 – 21 November 1830) was a Hungarian dramatist and artist, brother of Sándor Kisfaludy. He was the founder of the national drama. Early life The youngest of eight children, his mother died in childbirth, ...
- Hungarian dramatist (1788–1830) *
Bálint Kiss Bálint Kiss (29 December 1802, Szentes – 27 January 1868, Pest, Hungary, Pest) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Biography His father, also named , was a well-known Presbyterian minister and educator. he attended the public schools ...
* * Béla Kondor - Hungarian painter, prose writer, poet, photographer, and avant-garde graphic artist (1931–1972) *
Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch (29 October 1863 – 16 June 1920) was a Hungarian Art Nouveau painter. He was born in Buda Buda (, ) is the part of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that lies on the western bank of the Danube. Histori ...
* József Koszta * Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka - Hungarian painter (1853–1919)


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* Márta Lacza - Hungarian graphic artist and portrait painter (born 1946) *
Émile Lahner Emile Lahner (28 September 1893 – 14 December 1980) was a Hungarian-born painter who moved to Paris in 1924 and became part of the School of Paris, a group of international artists working in Paris between 1900 and 1940. Lahner was born in 1 ...
- Hungarian painter (1893–1980) *
Philip de László Philip Alexius László de Lombos (born Fülöp Laub; ; 30 April 1869 – 22 November 1937), known professionally as Philip de László, was an Anglo-Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages. ...
- Hungarian painter of portraits of royal and aristocratic personages (1869–1937) * Sándor Liezen-Mayer * Emil Lindenfeld - Hungarian-American oil-painter (1905–1986) *
Károly Lotz Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz (16 December 1833 – 13 October 1904) was a Germans, German-Hungarian people, Hungarian Painting, painter. Career Karl Lotz was born in Bad Homburg vor der Taunus, Höhe, Germany, the 7th an ...
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-Hungarian painter (1833–1904)


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* Viktor Madarász - Hungarian romantic painter (1840–1917) * Americo Makk - Hungarian ecclesiastical, historical portrait painter (1927–2015) * Ádám Mányoki - Hungarian
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Ödön Márffy Ödön Márffy (30 November 1878 – 3 December 1959) was a Hungarian painter, one of The Eight in Budapest, credited with bringing cubism, Fauvism and expressionism to the country. Biography Following a short basic training, he obtained a g ...
- Hungarian painter (1878–1959) *
Károly Markó the Elder Károly Markó, also known as Carlo Marco (25 September 1791,
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Zsuzsa Máthé - Hungarian painter, founder of Transrealism (1964–) * Eszter Mattioni (1902–1993) - Hungarian painter *
László Mednyánszky Baron László Mednyánszky, also known by his Latinized name Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky (; 23 April 1852 – 17 April 1919), was a Slovaks, Slovak–Hungarians, Hungarian painter and philosopher, considered one of the ...
- Hungarian painter in the Impressionist tradition (1852–1919) * Attila Meszlenyi * Géza Mészöly - Hungarian Romantic painter (1844–1887) *
László Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by Constructivism (art), con ...
- Hungarian painter, professor, and
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(1895–1946) * Master M. S. - painter who specialized in late
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Mihály Munkácsy Mihály Munkácsy (20 February 1844 – 1 May 1900) was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings. Early years Munkácsy was born as ''Mihály Leó Lieb'' () to Mi ...
- Hungarian painter of genre pictures and large scale biblical paintings (1844–1900)


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* István Nagy - Hungarian painter (1873–1937) *
János Nagy Balogh János Nagy Balogh (2 August 1874, Budapest – 22 November 1919, Budapest) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist who specialized in proletarian subjects. Biography He came from a humble, working-class family. His father died early and his ...
- Hungarian painter (1874–1919) * Oszkár Nagy - Hungarian painter (1893-1965) * Vilmos Aba Novák - Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1894–1941)


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István Orosz István Orosz (born 24 October 1951) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director. He is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphose ...
- Hungarian painter, printmaker,
graphic designer A graphic designer is a practitioner who follows the discipline of graphic design, either within companies or organizations or independently. They are professionals in design and visual communication, with their primary focus on transforming ...
and animated film director (1951–)


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László Paál László Paál (30 July 1846, Zám, Transylvania, Austrian Empire - 4 March 1879, Charenton-le-Pont, France) was a Hungarian Impressionist landscape painter. Life He was descended from a noble family and his father was a postmaster, which res ...
- Hungarian Realist landscape painter (1846–1879) *
Béla Pállik Béla Pállik (2 February 1845, Nagymihály – 27 July 1908, Budapest) was a Hungarian artist, opera singer and theater director. He was best known for his animal painter, animal paintings and was nicknamed "Birkapiktor" ("Sheep-painter"). ...
- painter and opera singer (1845-1908) * Arthur Pan -
portraitist A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better re ...
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Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (Winston Churchill in the Second World War, ...
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Jan Smuts Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, (baptismal name Jan Christiaan Smuts, 24 May 1870 11 September 1950) was a South African statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as P ...
* Károly Patkó - Hungarian painter and copper engraver, noted for his nude paintings in a plastic presentation (1895–1941) * Soma Orlai Petrich - Hungarian painter (1822–1880) * Ervin Plány - Hungarian painter (1885-1916) *
Bertalan Pór Bertalan Pór (4 November 1880 – 28 August 1964) was a Hungarian painter associated with the development of modernist Hungarian art. He was a member of The Eight, a movement among several Hungarian painters in the early twentieth century who ...
- Hungarian painter (1880–1964)


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* István Regős - Hungarian painter and designer (1954–) * Tibor Rényi - contemporary Hungarian painter (1973–) *
István Réti István Réti (26 December 1872 – 17 January 1945) was a Hungarian painter, professor, art historian and leading member, as well as a founder and theoretician, of the Nagybánya artists' colony, located in what is present-day Baia Mare ...
- Hungarian painter, professor, art historian and leading member, as well as a founder and theoretician, of the Nagybánya artists' colony (1872–1945) *
József Rippl-Rónai József Rippl-Rónai (23 May 1861 – 25 November 1927) was a Hungarian painter. He was among the first Hungarian exponents of artistic modernism. Biography He was born in Kaposvár. After his studies at the high school there, he went to ...
- Hungarian painter (1861–1927) * Charles Roka - Hungarian painter of artistic
kitsch ''Kitsch'' ( ; loanword from German) is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as Naivety, naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous or of banal Taste (sociology), taste. The modern avant-garde traditionally opposed kitsch ...
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György Rózsahegyi György Rózsahegyi (1940–2010) was a Hungarian caricaturist and painter. His life György Rózsahegyi was born in Budapest, Hungary on 21 November 1940. His father, ''Jenő Rózsahegyi'' was a world-wide known, professional boxing champion, ...
- contemporary Hungarian painter (1940–2010)


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* István Sándorfi - Hungarian/French painter (1948–2007) * Michael Aloysius Sarisky - figure, genre, and landscape Hungarian painter, who lived in
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, USA (1906–1974) * János Saxon-Szász * Hugo Scheiber *
Mihály Schéner Mihály Schéner (Medgyesegyháza, Hungary, January 9, 1923 – Budapest, May 11, 2009) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and ceramist. About 60 of Schéner's metal sculptures are on display in International ...
- mid-20th century
modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...
artist (1923–2009) * Oszkar Tordai Schilling * Henriett Seth F. - Hungarian
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poet, writer and artist (1980–) * Oliver Sin - contemporary Hungarian painter, science art, math art (1985–) *
Bertalan Székely Bertalan Székely (8 May 1835, Kolozsvár, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) – 21 August 1910, Budapest, Transleithania, Austria-Hungary) was a Hungarian history and portrait painter who worked in the Romantic ...
- Hungarian Romantic painter of historical themes (1835–1910) *
Adam Szentpétery Szentpétery Ádám (; born 24 February 1956) is a Hungarian artist in Slovakia and the Department Head/Professor of the Studio of Contemporary Image at the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia. He is known primarily ...
- Hungarian
Abstract painter Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. ''Abstract art'', ''non-figurative art'', ''non-objective art'', and ''non ...
(1956-) * Pál von Szinyei-Merse - Hungarian painter and politician (1845–1920) * István Szőnyi * Lili Árkayné Sztehló - Hungarian painter and stained-glass decorator (1897–1959)


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* Judy Takács - Hungarian-American figurative realist painter (1962–) *
Mór Than Mór Than (; 19 June 1828 – 11 March 1899) was a Hungarian painter. He painted in the Realist school and worked with several high-profile Hungarian and Austrian painters of his time. He travelled around Italy, in France and his native Hu ...
- Hungarian realistic, pre-
impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
style painter (1828–1899) * Ernő Tibor - Jewish Hungarian painter (1885–1945) *
Lajos Tihanyi Lajos Tihanyi (29 October 1885 – 11 June 1938) was a Hungarian painter and lithographer who achieved international renown working outside his country, primarily in Paris, France. After emigrating in 1919, he never returned to Hungary, even on a ...
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János Tornyai János Tornyai (January 18, 1869 – September 20, 1936) was a renowned Hungarian painter born in Hódmezővásárhely. Early life Tornyai, the son of day labourers, studied at the School of Decorative Art in 1886–1888, then a guest pupil of ...
- Hungarian painter (1869–1936)


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Géza Udvary Géza László Udvary (20 September 1872, Perbenyik - 4 February 1932, Budapest) was a Hungarian painter in the Romantic style. Biography He attended the public schools of Kassa and Debrecen, then studied painting at a private school operate ...
- Hungarian Romantic and
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painter (1872–1932)


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Lajos Vajda Lajos Vajda ( Hungarian: Vajda Lajos; 1908, Zalaegerszeg – 1941, Budakeszi) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. From 1927 to 1930 he was a student of István Csók at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Vajda stayed in Paris between 193 ...
- Hungarian
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painter (1908–1941) *
János Valentiny János Valentiny (1 January 1842, Nagylak - 25 February 1902, Nádasdladány) was a Hungarian painter of portraits, landscapes and Genre art, genre scenes. His international reputation is based on his realistic, unromanticized portrayals of the ...
(1842–1902) * György Vastagh (1834–1922) *
János Vaszary János Miklós Vaszary (30 November 1867 – 19 April 1939) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Biography He was born into a prominent Catholic family in Kaposvár. His uncle was Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, the Archbishop of Esztergom. His ar ...
- Hungarian painter (1867–1938)


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Henrik Weber Henrik Wéber known as Henrik Weber (24 May 1818, in Pest, Hungary, Pest – 14 May 1866, in Pest) was a Hungarian portrait and history painter in the Realism (art), Realism movement. He is considered as one of the most important Hungarian painte ...
- Hungarian portrait and history painter (1818–1866) *
Félix Bódog Widder Félix Bódog Widder (; 28 April 1874 – 26 September 1939) was a Hungarians, Hungarian painter, graphic designer and teacher. Family and education Félix Bódog Widder was born on 28 April 1874 in Arad, Romania, Arad. His daughter was Magda ...
- Hungarian painter and graphic designer (1874–1939)


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Mihály Zichy Mihály Zichy (; ; 15 October 1827 – 28 February 1906) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He is considered a notable representative of Hungarian romantic painting. He lived and worked primarily in St. Petersburg and Paris during hi ...
- Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1827–1906)


See also

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List of Hungarians This is a list of Hungarians notable within Hungary and/or abroad. It includes notable Hungarians born outside present-day Hungary. Architects Artists * Gyula Aggházy * Károly Antal *Franz Liszt * Miklós Borsos *Sándor Bortnyik * Franco ...
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List of painters Lists of painters cover painting, painters and are organized by name, nationality, gender, location, school and collection. General * List of painters by name * Lists of painters by nationality * ''Women Painters of the World'', 1905 book By ...


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Fine Arts in Hungary from the beginning to the mid-20th century
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Painters Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...
Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...