Botond Kuti, 1984 | Abstract ainter

Botond Kuti is an Hungarian artist from Transylvania.

Botond Kuti was born in Marosvásárhely (Tg. Mures) and growing up in the heart of Transylvania, in a town called Szováta (Sovata), influenced by his father’s paintings, he soon turned to art himself.

Given this artistic and creative background, he was determined to become a painter by the age of 14. From 1999-2003 Botond was a scholarship student in the Department of Painting at Palló Imre High School of Fine Arts in Székelyudvarhely (Odorheiu Secuiesc).

Vida Gábor | Genre painter

Vida Gábor (1937-1999) was born to a simple working Hungarian family in 1937. He became attracted to music in his early youth and received a music scholarship. He studied and mastered the flute. In 1956, he began working as a flute soloist in the Philharmonic orchestra for the Budapest Opera and continued for 25 years. Although, he has always been painting and sculpting throughout his life, he decided to dedicate himself completely to painting in 1977. Being a perfectionist, he decided to achieve the highest standards in this fine art and to create his own unique style.

Spányi Béla | En plein air painter

Béla Adalbert von Spányi (19 March 1852, Pest - 12 June 1914, Budapest) was one of Hungary’s best painters of landscapes and scenes of natural outdoor beauty.
He studied in Vienna, Munich and Paris and spent much of his time in Szolnok, a popular gathering place for artists. He was one of the assistants who worked with Árpád Feszty to produce his monumental cyclorama Arrival of the Hungarians.

Arthur Braginsky, 1965

Nato a Mukachevo, Ucraina, Arthur Braginsky è un artista pluripremiato che vive e lavora in Ungheria.

Nel 1982 si è laureato da Mukachevo scuola d'arte.

Successivamente ha studiato a Lviv I. Fedorov Poligrafico Institute.

Dal 1987-1989 ha lavorato come artista delle luci presso la Filarmonica regionale (Uzhgorod), più tardi presso il Teatro Drammatico russo come decoratore.

Marlene Dietrich 1901-1992

Miklós Ligeti | Impressionist /Realist sculptor

Miklós Ligeti (May 1, 1871 - December 10, 1944) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist.

His sculptural style integrated elements of Impressionism and realism.

First a pupil of Alajos Stróbl in Budapest, later Ligeti learnt in Vienna.

He produced mainly memorials and portraits.

Joseph Kleitsch ~ Plein Air painter

Joseph Kleitsch (1882-1931) was a Hungarian-American portrait and Plein Air painter who holds a high place in the early California School of Impressionism.
Born in Banad, Hungary on June 6, 1882, Kleitsch began painting at the age of seven. He later pursued art training in Budapest, Munich and Paris. He immigrated to the United States in 1912 and two years later, on July 22, 1914, he married Edna Gregatis of Chicago, Illinois with whom he would have his only child, Eugene. Influenced by his visits to the famous museums of Europe, Kleitsch continued with his love of portrait and figurative painting after relocating to California.

Museum Masterpieces [Part.2]

Gyula Benczúr (Hungarian painter, 1844-1920) | Narcissus, 1881 | Hungarian National Gallery

Gyula Benczúr, a contemporary of Mihály Munkácsyand Pál Szinyei Merse, was a consistently outstanding exponent of academicism from his time at the Academy in Munich, and later a much feted artist in Budapest.

He was accomplished in every aspect of painting that could be learned from studying the works of his Renaissance and Baroque forebears.

These skills, encompassing composition and the precise, sensual depiction of details, are demonstrated in his Narcissus of 1881.

Surprisingly, however, Benczúr’s treatment of this Ovidian theme deviates from the traditional iconography.

Jozsef Rippl Ronai ~ Post-Impressionist painter

Jozsef Rippl-Ronai (1861-1927) was an Hungarian painter, known for working in the Les Nabis style. He first introduced modern artistic movements in the Hungarian art.
He was born in Kaposvár. After his studies at the High School there, he went to study in Budapest, where he obtained a degree in pharmacology. In 1884 he traveled to Munich to study painting at the Academy. Two years later he obtained a grant which enabled him to move to Paris and study with Munkácsy, the most important Hungarian realist painter.
In 1888 he met the members of Les Nabis and under their influence he painted his first important work, The Inn at Pont-Aven, a deeply felt work notable for its dark atmosphere. His first big success was his painting My Grandmother, 1894. He also painted in a portrait of Hungarian pianist and composer Zdenka Ticharich, 1921.

Ildiko Neer ~ La foresta incantata

"Per sfuggire al mondo non c'è niente di più sicuro dell'arte e niente è meglio dell'arte per tenersi in contatto con il mondo".

Johann Wolfgang Goethe 1749-1832

Ildiko Neer ~ Dreamland

Budapest-based photographer Ildiko Neer enjoys composing impressive natural environments retouched photos all together in the series called “Dreamland”. With beautiful colors, beautiful landscapes and enigmatic paths are discovered later in the article.

I started taking photos in 2009.

My pictures express the feelings and moods what I felt during my trips in the last few years. If I try to imagine myself, I see someone walking on the road straight to the light.

This kind of light the photography and the post-processing in my life.

In the dreamland that I create I feel myself at home.

I belong to the forest. I am under big trees, waiting for the miracle to begin.

I invite you to take a trip with me. Just relax and fly with your thoughts.

Thanks for visiting...

Noell Oszvald, 1991 | Surrealist photographer

Hungarian photographer Noell S. Oszvald is a self-taught photographer and visual artist from Budapest. Her black and white photographs resemble mid-century fashion photography as much as it does the work of her surrealist influences.

Severe contrasts between light and dark create graceful lines and a definite composition for each piece. In this way each image is intriguing, not only for its dreamy content but also because they are simply pleasing to look at.

Perhaps what is most surprising, though, is the fact Oszvald’s relationship with the camera is relatively new. Only twenty-two years old Oszvald has only been using the medium for a little over a year.

Maksai János, 1954 ~ Figurative painter

Maksai János, Hungarian painter, was born in Debrecen. Learn the bases of painting at free schools of art from 1972. Since 1983 János taken part regularly in the work of international colonies of artists. János paintings were shown in several independent and collective exhibitions: in Budapest, Szentendre, Debrecen, Hajdúszoboszló and Tokaj. János pictures can be found in the homes of collectors in Austria, France, Germany, Poland and Australia. Hi work with oil technique on canvas. "I would like to paint the beauties of the world. I try to tell people in the language of painting in what a wonderful world of nature we are living, we must only behave in a human way for it. I live in Debrecen since 1990. I have been a freelance artist".

Pal Fried | La Belle Époque

Pál Fried was a Hungarian-born American painter.

He studied at the Hungarian Academy under the instruction of Hugo Pohl and in Paris under Claude Monet and Lucien Simone.

He was heavily influenced by the French impressionist school of Renoir and Degas.

Pál Fried excelled in portraits of high society Parisian women, ballerinas, Oriental and western scenes, seascapes, primary working with oil and pastels, experimenting with light and movement in his work.

József Kárpáti, 1956

József Kárpáti was born in Kevermes, Békés County, Hungary.

Graduated as a teacher of arts at the Teacher Training College of Eger.

At the beginning he took interest in the non-figurative style of painting, which shows the influence of his master, Ignác Kokas.

Within some years he found his individual abstract world of images.