DOI Heft:
No. 103 (October, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Tahi, Anthony: A hungarian painter: Filip E. László
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0016
Filip E. Ldszld
private collection of 190 canvases. The first art little frequented by our young painters and
school was established in 1845 by an Italian sculptors. In the eighties there was a numerous
painter, Giacomo Marastoni by name ; and Hungarian colony in Munich, which took its style
thus was laid the foundation ot Hungarian art. largely from its surroundings, and, indeed, con-
Various political and social causes proved for tributed three professors to the Academy—viz.
a time a serious hindrance to vigorous develop- J. Benczur, A. Liezenmayer, and A. Wagner,
ment, but from the hour of national independence Benczur, by the way, has since 1883 been Director
in 1867, Hungarian art advanced with giant strides, of the Meister Atelier at Budapest. There can be
The second of the two reasons why Hungarian no Hungarian painter to-day—with the exception
art is so little known in foreign countries is of the very young men—who has not studied
Hungary's geographical situation. To the isola- under one of the three masters just mentioned,
tion of the country from the great art centres of For many years it was just vaguely known abroad
Europe is due the fact that Hungarian artists seldom that there existed a Hungarian painter named
take part in foreign exhibitions, and, moreover, Munkacsy, many people, moreover, taking him
since the State has interested itself in art matters for a Pole or a Russian. Yet while he lived
the Academies of Vienna and Munich have been there was a little colony ot Hungarian painters
in Paris who regularly ex-
hibited at the Salon and
mhmh|MM| won many high honours.
To attempt to study
and to understand Hun-
garian art through the
medium of the interna-
tional art exhibitions is a
somewhat hopeless expe-
dient, for it rarely happens
that the best and most
characteristic work is to be
seen there. Witness the
recent Exposition Inter-
nationale in Paris, where,
despite the abundance of
works displayed, the public
was certainly not in a
position to obtain more
than the vaguest notion of
the Hungarian art of to-
day. To realise what this
is one must visit the
country itself. It is indeed
greatly to be desired that
the intercourse between
ourselves and the art
loving public should be
increased.
Since the State has
1 taken control of national
art it has happily become
the custom for the young
Hungarian who ap-
proaches maturity to
travel abroad. I say
"happily," for by this
" the grand duchess of meiningen " by f. e. laszl(5 means alone can we hope
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private collection of 190 canvases. The first art little frequented by our young painters and
school was established in 1845 by an Italian sculptors. In the eighties there was a numerous
painter, Giacomo Marastoni by name ; and Hungarian colony in Munich, which took its style
thus was laid the foundation ot Hungarian art. largely from its surroundings, and, indeed, con-
Various political and social causes proved for tributed three professors to the Academy—viz.
a time a serious hindrance to vigorous develop- J. Benczur, A. Liezenmayer, and A. Wagner,
ment, but from the hour of national independence Benczur, by the way, has since 1883 been Director
in 1867, Hungarian art advanced with giant strides, of the Meister Atelier at Budapest. There can be
The second of the two reasons why Hungarian no Hungarian painter to-day—with the exception
art is so little known in foreign countries is of the very young men—who has not studied
Hungary's geographical situation. To the isola- under one of the three masters just mentioned,
tion of the country from the great art centres of For many years it was just vaguely known abroad
Europe is due the fact that Hungarian artists seldom that there existed a Hungarian painter named
take part in foreign exhibitions, and, moreover, Munkacsy, many people, moreover, taking him
since the State has interested itself in art matters for a Pole or a Russian. Yet while he lived
the Academies of Vienna and Munich have been there was a little colony ot Hungarian painters
in Paris who regularly ex-
hibited at the Salon and
mhmh|MM| won many high honours.
To attempt to study
and to understand Hun-
garian art through the
medium of the interna-
tional art exhibitions is a
somewhat hopeless expe-
dient, for it rarely happens
that the best and most
characteristic work is to be
seen there. Witness the
recent Exposition Inter-
nationale in Paris, where,
despite the abundance of
works displayed, the public
was certainly not in a
position to obtain more
than the vaguest notion of
the Hungarian art of to-
day. To realise what this
is one must visit the
country itself. It is indeed
greatly to be desired that
the intercourse between
ourselves and the art
loving public should be
increased.
Since the State has
1 taken control of national
art it has happily become
the custom for the young
Hungarian who ap-
proaches maturity to
travel abroad. I say
"happily," for by this
" the grand duchess of meiningen " by f. e. laszl(5 means alone can we hope
4