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Bertalan Karlovszky (24 October 1858, Munkács – 11 April 1938,
: Biography @ A Pallas nagy lexikona After three years as a cadet, he was sent to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he studied under Otto Seitz. He was later invited to Paris by Mihály Munkácsy and spent a year in Munkácsy's studio, improving to the point where his works could hardly be distinguished from his teacher's. He began exhibiting his
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Bertalan Karlovszky (24 October 1858, Munkács – 11 April 1938, Budapest
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) 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 education, he was enrolled at a Military Academy. However, he spent most of his time in class making drawings of his instructors and fellow students, rather than listening to the lectures. Soon, he was the talk of the school and painted a portrait of his commanding officer from a photograph. The officer was so impressed that he spoke to Bertalan's mother and suggested that he be given artistic training.Encyclopedia Search: Biography @ A Pallas nagy lexikona After three years as a cadet, he was sent to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he studied under Otto Seitz. He was later invited to Paris by Mihály Munkácsy and spent a year in Munkácsy's studio, improving to the point where his works could hardly be distinguished from his teacher's. He began exhibiting his
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, where they proved to be quite popular. They became a common sight in shop windows and he sought out connections with American art dealers. They proved to be as popular there and fetched high prices.
After his return from abroad in 1894, he settled in Budapest, producing illustrations and doing portraits. For many years, he operated a painting school. In 1921, he had a major retrospective at the Hall of Art and, in 1928, he became a Professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
Selected paintings
Laughing Lady File:Karlovszky Wooers 1880s.jpg, Wooers File:Karlovszky Alms.jpg, Alms File:Karlovszky Figure from the Period of Louis XIII 1897.jpg, Figure from the Period of
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.
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File:Karlovszky Portrait of a Lady 1918 A.jpg, Portrait of a Lady
References
Portrait of Count de Bothuri Bathory, oil on panel,exhibited in Venice in 1912, de Bothuri Bathory collectionExternal links
ArtNet: More works by Karlovszky
@ Művészet, (1913) {{DEFAULTSORT:Karlovszky, Bertalan 1858 births 1938 deaths Hungarian portrait painters Genre painters 19th-century Hungarian painters 20th-century Hungarian painters Painters from Austria-Hungary