Istvan Sàndorfi | Hyper-Surrealist painter

István Sándorfi (1948-2007) also known as Étienne Sandorfi, was a naturalised French painter of Hungarian origin.

He received his formal art education at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and at École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris.

He mastered what art critics now term hyperrealism. But he did so with his very own blend of Surreal elements.

François Gall (1912-1987) | Ballet dancers

Hungarian by birth - born in Kolozsvar in the former region of Transylvania - François Gall (1912-1987) became an impressionist painter🎨 in the pure French tradition after he moved to Paris in 1936.

He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rome while working to secure a living.

The artist participated in various Salon exhibitions in Paris.

Support came in 1939 when the Hungarian government awarded🎨 Gall with a scholarship. Received the Medaille🎨 de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris in 1974.

Appointed Chevalier dans l’Odre des Arts des Lettres in 1976.

In 1963, he was honored with the Francis Smith Prize🎨.

François Gall | Impressionist painter

François Gall (22 March 1912, Hungary - 9 December 1987, France) was an Hungarian-born French🎨 modern impressionist painter.

François Gall was born "Ferenc Erdelyi Gall" in 1912 in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj Napoca).

In 1936, at age 24 years, he moved to Paris.

Early in 1939, Gall returned to Kolosvàr to attend the bedside of his dying father. Once there, he could not return to France as the declaration of war was imminent.

Gall's war time years were finished in Wels, Austria where he was a medic.

Mihaly Zichy | Romantic painter

Mihály Zichy (15 October 1827 in Zala, Kingdom of Hungary - 28 February 1906 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.

Mihály Zichy was a significant representative of Hungarian romantic painting.

During his law studies in Pest from 1842, he attended Jakab Marastoni's school as well.

In Vienna he was Waldmüller's pupil in 1844. "Lifeboat", his first major work, comes from this time.

On Waldmüller's recommendation, he became an art teacher in St. Petersburg.

He swore allegiance to freedom by painting the portrait of Lajos Batthyány, the first Hungarian prime minister, in 1849.

Pal Fried | Vintage style Figurative painter

Pál Fried (1893-1976), Hungarian-born American painter⏭, a well-known Hungarian painter of the 20th century whose art is mostly associated with 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.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Fried see:

• Pal Fried | La Belle Époque | Vintage figurative painter ➻
• Pal Fried | Ballet Dancers ➻

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.

Istvan Sàndorfi | Drawing

István Sándorfi was born in Budapest in 1948 and died in 2007. His father was director of the American company, IBM, in Hungary.

Because of this association he served five years in Stalinist prisons during the Communist regime and his family was deported to an isolated Hungarian village.

At the time of the 1956 uprising the Sandorfi family fled the country and became expatriates, first in Germany, then in France.

Greatly affected by the violence of the revolution and by the aberration of political systems in general, Istvan took refuge in drawing, and then, at the age of 12, in oil painting.

Pal Fried | Ballet Dancers

The following collection include the Ballet dancer paintings by Hungarian-born American painter* Pál Fried (1893-1976).

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

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Fried see:

• Pal Fried | La Belle Époque | Vintage figurative painter ➻
• Pal Fried | Vintage style Figurative painter ➻