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N° 1 François Gall Documented profile
His training began with Aurel Popp and continued in Rome, at the Accademia di San Luca in Umberto Coromaldi’s studio, before he entered the Collegium Hungaricum. His hometown organis…
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N° 2 Tamás Konok Documented profile
The Hungarian painter and sculptor Tamás Konok (1930–2020) developed an abstract body of work in which geometric motifs, the study of line and space and, later, systems of signs are…
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N° 3 Béla Kádár Documented profile
After six years of schooling, Béla Kádár becomes an apprentice iron turner. He begins painting murals in Budapest. In 1910, he visits Paris and Berlin; by 1918 at the latest, he has…
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N° 4 Hugo Scheiber Documented profile
Born in Budapest in 1873, Hugó Scheiber returned to the city with his family at the age of fifteen. He worked during the day and attended evening painting classes, completing his tra…
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N° 5 ヴァサリ・ヤーノシュ Documented profile
János Vaszary (1867–1939), born in Kaposvár and deceased in Budapest, was a Hungarian painter trained in Budapest, Munich and Paris. His early work moved between Naturalism, Symbolis…
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N° 6 Alexandre Hollan Documented profile
Born in Budapest in 1933, Alexandre Hollan left Hungary in 1956 and settled in Paris, where he studied at the École des beaux-arts with Roger Chapelain-Midy. His work centres on tree…
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N° 7 Marcel Vértes Documented profile
Marcel Vertès moved drawing between painting, fashion and performance. A scarf design in the Metropolitan Museum, executed in watercolour and black chalk on cardboard, records this p…
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N° 8 Elmyr de Hory Documented profile
Elmyr de Hory’s career is marked by a practice of copying that, after the war in Paris, became an activity in forgery: having come to try to make a living as an artist, he discovered…
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N° 9 Árpád Szenes Documented profile
French painter of Hungarian origin, Árpád Szenes develops his work from poetic intimacy towards contemplative landscapes in which figurative references become less pronounced. Pierre…
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N° 10 Henri Nouveau Documented profile
Henri Nouveau, born Henrik Neugeboren in Brașov in 1901 and deceased in Paris in 1959, pursued parallel careers as a composer and painter. After studying music in Berlin, he worked w…
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N° 11 Lajos Kassák Documented profile
Self-taught, Lajos Kassák turned to avant-garde movements and identified himself as a proletarian artist, a position he upheld throughout his life. In 1909, while working as a labour…
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N° 12 Aurel Naray Documented profile
Aurel Naray, a Hungarian artist born in Budapest in 1883 and who died in 1948, is known here through works whose titles evoke maternal and religious figures. Maria mit zwei Engeln is…
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N° 13 Joseph Csaky Documented profile
Joseph Csaky was a sculptor based in Paris from 1908. After brief studies in decorative arts in Budapest, he learned modelling and carving in manufacturing workshops. In Paris he set…
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N° 14 Alfréd Réth Documented profile
Alfréd Réth (1884–1966) developed a career that moved from learning to paint towards exploring materials. In 1903 he joined the Nagybánya artists' colony and worked under Károly Fere…
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N° 15 Hermann Kern Documented profile
Hermann Kern (1838–1912) was born in Liptóújvár, now Liptovský Hrádok in Slovakia, and died in Maria Enzersdorf near Vienna. A physician’s son, he took drawing lessons in Levoča and…
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N° 16 Lajos Kolozsváry Documented profile
Lajos Kolozsváry, a Hungarian artist born in 1871 and deceased in 1937, is presented as a genre painter. The works recorded include group scenes centred on objects or subjects of stu…
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N° 17 Mihály Munkácsy Documented profile
Mihály Munkácsy moved from scenes of the everyday lives of peasants and people living in poverty to large-scale biblical and decorative compositions, whose scale marks several stages…
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N° 18 Aurel Richter Documented profile
Hungarian painter Aurel Richter (1870–1957), born in Budapest, also worked as an illustrator and designer. Mark Mitchell’s account records his training with Karl Lotz and his contact…
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N° 19 Pál Fried Documented profile
Born in Budapest in 1893, Pál (Pal) Fried (1893–1976) is identified as a Hungarian and later American artist. His training began at the Hungarian Academy of Arts, where he studied un…
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N° 20 Anna Beothy-Steiner Documented profile
Her paintings, often executed in gouache on paper, are accompanied by drawings of an abstract conception, frequently characterised by vivid colours. Painter born in 1902 and died in…
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N° 21 Endre Tót Documented profile
Born in Sümeg in 1937, the Hungarian artist Endre Tót moves from painting to a conceptual practice using a variety of forms and media, from artist’s books to actions. After studying…
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N° 22 István Boldizsár Documented profile
István Boldizsár (1897–1984), born in Orosháza, belonged to the tradition of the Nagybánya artists’ colony. As a Budapest student, he encountered this milieu in the late 1910s before…
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N° 23 István Nyári Documented profile
István Nyári, born in Budapest in 1952, graduated in advertising graphics from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts in 1977. He began making fine art in 1978 while also designing re…
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N° 24 Joseph Raumann Documented profile
Joseph Raumann (1908–1999), a painter of Hungarian origin, was self-taught before developing his activity in France. His career included exhibitions at Goupil in Paris and a lasting…
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N° 25 László Moholy-Nagy Documented profile
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), born in Hungary, made experimentation a shared principle across painting, photography, film and design. Settling in Berlin in 1920, he embraced Constr…
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N° 26 Simon Hantaï Documented profile
Simon Hantaï (1922–2008), a Hungarian-born painter who became French, arrived in Paris in 1948. His early experiments combined collage, scraping, rubbing and paint runs. Following a…
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N° 27 Attila Kovács Documented profile
Koordination p3-13-1975 is an acrylic painting on canvas mounted on wood, measuring 100 × 100 cm; the entry describes it as signed and dated, and as bearing the name Kovács on the re…
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N° 28 Krisztián Frey Documented profile
Krisztián Frey (1929–1997) is represented by an untitled mixed-media work on paper, measuring 700 × 500 mm, whose entry notes three continuous horizontal folds and three continuous v…
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N° 29 László Mednyánszky Documented profile
László Mednyánszky, known as Ladislav in Slovak collections, was born in Beckov in 1852 and died in Vienna in 1919. He remained attached to the family estate at Strážky, where he spe…
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N° 30 László Neogrády Documented profile
The Hungarian painter László Neogrády (1896–1962), born and died in Budapest, is associated with snow-covered forests and winter scenes of the Tatras. INVESTinART describes these com…
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N° 31 Rita Ackermann Documented profile
Born in Budapest in 1968, Rita Ackermann trained in Hungary before moving to New York in the early 1990s. Her early paintings and drawings multiply adolescent female figures, combini…
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N° 32 Adolf Fényes Documented profile
Born in Kecskemét in 1867 and deceased in Budapest in 1945, Adolf Fényes trained in Budapest, Weimar and Paris. Associated with the artists’ colony at Szolnok, he developed a paintin…
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N° 33 György Ruttkay Documented profile
Gyorgy Ruttkay (1898–1974) combined law and painting for much of his career. The biography published by Invaluable describes artistic training in Hungary from 1920, followed by a per…
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N° 34 Imre Goth Documented profile
Imre Goth’s career is distinguished by the intersection of portraiture and the illustrated press: he portrayed figures from the entertainment world, including Lilian Harvey, as well…
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N° 35 József Molnár Documented profile
József Molnár (1821–1899) was a Hungarian painter whose studies took him to Venice, Rome and Munich. He subsequently settled in Stuttgart, where he painted portraits, before returnin…
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N° 36 Lajos Markos Documented profile
Trained in Budapest, Lajos Markos initially worked in Italy, developing a practice as a portrait painter. His move to New York with his wife in 1952 opened an American career combini…
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N° 37 Lajos Tihanyi Documented profile
Lajos Tihanyi, born in Budapest in 1885 and deceased in Paris in 1938, belonged to the early twentieth-century Hungarian avant-garde. Exhibiting with the Eight from 1909, he develope…
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N° 38 Lajos Vajda Documented profile
Lajos Vajda (1908–1941), born in Zalaegerszeg, who died in Budakeszi, belongs to the Hungarian avant-garde. Szentendre provides an important repertoire for his drawings: churches, al…
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N° 39 Margit Anna Documented profile
Margit Anna was born in Borota in 1913 and died in Budapest in 1991. She developed a painting practice in which self-portraits coexist with masks and grotesque figures. Arriving in B…
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N° 40 Masa Feszty Documented profile
Masa Feszty, also known as Mária Feszty, was born in Budapest into an artistic family: her father was Árpád Feszty and her mother Róza Jókai. She received their guidance before conti…
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N° 41 Rudolf Négely Documented profile
Rudolf Négely’s work is primarily associated with landscape, particularly urban scenes and seascapes or harbour views inspired by Italy and the Adriatic coast. Venice, sailing ships,…
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N° 42 Zlatko Prica Documented profile
Zlatko Prica (1916–2003), a Croatian painter and printmaker born in Pécs, graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 1940. His journey to India in 1952 preceded the Samobor cy…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026