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Seated Old Woman
Painting ID:: 2791
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Mihaly Munkacsy
Seated Old Woman
1873
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Park Monceau at Night
Painting ID:: 2792
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Mihaly Munkacsy
Park Monceau at Night
1895
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
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Woman Churning
Painting ID:: 2793
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Mihaly Munkacsy
Woman Churning
1872-73
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Portrait of a Woman
Painting ID:: 2794
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Mihaly Munkacsy
Portrait of a Woman
1885
Deri Museum, Debrecen
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Portrait of Cardinal Lajos Haynald
Painting ID:: 2795
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Mihaly Munkacsy
Portrait of Cardinal Lajos Haynald
1884
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
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Mihaly Munkacsy
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1844-1900
Hungarian
Mihaly Munkacsy Locations
Munkacsy started to paint during the years he spent in Arad as a joiner. With the help of partons be studied at the Viennese, Munich and Dusseldorf academies. Munkacsy painted his first major work, the outstanding "The Condemned Cell" in D??sseldorf, in 1872, together with his friend Laszlo Paal, he moved to Paris, where be lived until the end of his life. Munkacsy painted his genres in the style of realism between 1873 and 1875: "Midnight Ramblers", "Farewell". "Churning Woman", "Woman Carryng Brushwood", and "Pawnshop" were the zenith of his career. He married the widow of Baron de Marches in 1874, and his style changed from that time on. Departing from the typical subjects of realism, be produced colourful salon paintings and still-lifes. This was the period when be also turned to ladscape painting; his growing interest is marked by such great paintings as "Dusty Road". "Corn Field", and "Walking in the Woods". The assimilation of Laszlo Paal's style is apparent in the landscapes painted during the 1880s, such as "Avenue" and "The Colpach Park". His realist portraits - e.g. of Franz Liszt and Cardinal Haynald - were also born around this time, together with his religions paintings, such as "Christ in front of Pilate", "Golgotha" and later, "Ecce homo".
Towards the end of his career he painted two monumental works: "Hungarian Conquest" for the House of Parliament and a fresco entitled "Apotheosis of Renaissance, for the ceiling Kunsthistoriches. Museum in Vienna. |
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