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György Vastagh
György Vastagh (12 April 1834 in Szeged – 21 February 1922 in Budapest) was a Hungarian portrait and genre painter. Biography His father was a shipping administrator, but had artistic leanings, which influenced György to start painting when he was still a boy. After returning home from fighting in the Hungarian Revolution, his talent was noticed by a piano teacher who lived nearby, and he began taking his first lessons from a local artist. In 1854 he went to Vienna, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and came under the influence of Carl Rahl and Friedrich von Amerling. While there, he mostly produced portraits and religiously themed works. In 1857, he settled in Kolozsvár, shared a studio with his friend, the photographer Ferenc Veress, and got married.Biography of Vastagh, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Vastagh (sculptor)
György Vastagh (18 September 1868, Kolozsvár - 3 June 1946, Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor. His works are in traditional Romanticism, Romantic and Classicism, Classical styles. Most of them are monuments or memorials, although he is also known for sculptures of animals. Life and work His father, also named György Vastagh, was a painter. His brother, Géza Vastagh, Géza, became a painter as well; specializing in animals. His first teacher was György Zala (sculptor), György Zala. From 1889 to 1891, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, with drawing classes from Gabriel von Hackl and lessons in modeling from Syrius Eberle. His first publicly erected work was the National Monument in Pápa (1889). A year later, he entered a competition, sponsored by the city of Kolozsvár, to create a monument for Matthias Corvinus on the 400th anniversary of his death, but the commission was awarded to János Fadrusz. A study trip to Paris followed in 1893, where he made the ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court Painter
A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the court artist might also be a court sculptor. In Western Europe, the role began to emerge in the mid-13th century. By the Renaissance, portraits, mainly of the family, made up an increasingly large part of their commissions, and in the early modern period one person might be appointed solely to do portraits, and another for other work, such as decorating new buildings. Especially in the Late Middle Ages, they were often given the office of valet de chambre. Usually they were given a salary and formal title, and often a pension for life, though arrangements were highly variable. But often the artist was paid only a retainer, and paid additionally for works he or, less often, she produced for the monarch. For the artist, a court appointment h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Male Painters
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19th-century Hungarian Painters
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genre Painters
Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. Such representations (also called genre works, genre scenes, or genre views) may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist. Some variations of the term ''genre art'' specify the medium or type of visual work, as in ''genre painting'', ''genre prints'', ''genre photographs'', and so on. The following concentrates on painting, but genre motifs were also extremely popular in many forms of the decorative arts, especially from the Rococo of the early 18th century onwards. Single figures or small groups decorated a huge variety of objects such as porcelain, furniture, wallpaper, and textiles. Genre painting ''Genre painting'', also called ''genre scene'' or ''petit genre'', depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painters From Austria-Hungary
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 a brush. Other implements, such as palette knives, sponges, airbrushes, the artist's fingers, or even a dripping technique that uses gravity may be used. One who produces paintings is called a painter. In art, the term "painting" describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate other materials, in single or multiple form, including sand, clay, paper, cardboard, newspaper, plaster, gold leaf, and even entire objects. Painting is an important form of visual arts, visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, Composition (visual art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Deaths
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1834 Births
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Géza Vastagh
Géza Jenő Ferenc Vastagh (3 September 1866, in Kolozsvár – 5 November 1919, in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter; specializing in animals. Life and work His father, György Vastagh, was a painter. His brother, György, became a sculptor; as did his niece, , and his nephew, . After studying at a Piarist secondary school in Budapest, he went to Munich in 1886. There, he enrolled at a private school, operated by Simon Hollósy, followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts under Gabriel von Hackl. In 1887, he held his first exhibition at the Glaspalast. That same year his painting, "Resting Peasant", was purchased by Emperor Franz Joseph I. The following year, he returned briefly to Budapest, then made a study trip to France. During this period, he sent many of his works to England and the United States. His interests later turned to animals; notably cattle. His painting "Ki a legény a csordában?" (Who is the Bachelor of the Herd?), was awarded a gold medal and made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
