Franz Liszt | La Campanella

"La campanella" (Italian for "The little bell") is the subtitle given to the third of Franz Liszt's six Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141 (1851). It is in the key of G-sharp minor.

"La campanella" is a revision of an earlier version from 1838, the Études d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S. 140.

Its melody comes from the final movement of Niccolò Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, where the tune was reinforced by a "little handbell".

Czárdás | Hungarian Dance

Inscribed in 2024 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the Csárdás is a Hungarian dance that is performed by couples consisting of a man and a woman, or, in some regions, of two women.

Multiple couples participate in the dance at the same time, forming one large or several smaller circles.

Each region has its own themes, gestures and figures, which are improvised according to well-known, established rules and patterns.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Czardas dancers, 1908 | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

Erzsébet Furmen | Pebble Artist

The Hungarian artist Erzsébet Furmen (Erzsébet Szilajka) brings stones to life in her charming Pebble Art.

She has loved stones since her childhood. She enthusiastically collected pebbles and made of them pieces of her life out like a mosaic.

Just as in her childhood, today Erzsébet can also spend a few hours on a gravel road or on a beach, choosing the most interesting, textured and ribbed stones for her work.

Now the artist tells stories about couples, family and love for animals.

Zsigmond István, 1964 | Digital watercolor painter

Zsigmond István is an Hungarian artist, born in Budapest and engaged in drawing, painting, literature and music for 25 years, from the early 1990s.

"Since the beginning of the 1990's I paint, draw and compose music too.

In 1995 I published my first book of poems titled "Trágár kocsisok bakján" ("On the dickey seats of nasty dickey's").

I am the founding member of the X-Art and the Poly art association and also the SZAK Studio art company".

Nikoletta Kiraly, 1978 | Palette knife painter

Nikoletta Király was born in Debrecen, Hungary. Her drawing talent was recognised at a very early age.

She moved near Lake Balaton with her family in her elementary school years and finished her high school education in Keszthely.

During these years she became the student of the painter Eörs Dókus, who started her on the rocky journey of oil painting.

Gulyás László, 1960 | Le ballerine

Nato a Budapest, il pittore ungherese Laszlo Gulyas si è diplomato all'Accademia di Belle Arti ed Arti Applicate con una laurea in grafica pubblicitaria e dal 1983 al 1987 è stato studente presso il College of Fine Arts, specializzandosi in riproduzione grafica.

Laszlo ha continuato i suoi studi come studente dell'Accademia di Belle Arti tra il 1983-il 1987.

L'artista ha sviluppato il suo mondo individuale di immagini e ha acquisito le tecniche pittoriche dei primi maestri della pittura sotto l'influenza dell'arte universale di Rembrandt.

Csaba Markus, 1953

Csaba Markus is a Hungarian-American artist, painter, sculptor and publisher. As an artist, he primarily works in the field of printmaking, with a particular focus on etching and serigraphy.

His work also includes oil painting, drawing, glass art, photography and sculpture. Markus's painting titled "Pure Love" has been selected as one of the World's 10 most sensual paintings by Toronto Sun newspaper.

Life and work

Markus was born in Budapest, Hungary.

His mother is Szőllős Erzsébet and father Károly Márkus. His childhood in Hungary, where he frequented museums, is an influence on his work.

He is also influenced by avant-garde art and abstraction.

Markus began his career as a sculptor. At the age of fourteen, he and his work were featured on international public television. He became increasingly frustrated with teachers and the confines of communism, realizing his Renaissance-inspired emphasis on the individual conflicted with Hungarian communist beliefs.

Gulyás László, 1960 | Figurative painter

Gulyás László was born in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated at the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, where he specialised in graphic design. They he continued his studies as a student of the Academy of Fine Arts between 1983-1987.

He has been member of the National Society of Hungarian Artists since 1987.

The artist developed his individual world of images and acquired the painting techniques of the early masters of painting under the influence of the universal art of Rembrandt. This is what makes him distinct form his contemporaries.