Árpád Feszty
Árpád Szilveszter Feszty (born Rehrenbeck, December 24, 1856 in Ógyalla , Austrian Empire ; died June 1, 1914 in Lovran , Austria-Hungary ), from 1887 also Árpád von Feszty , was a Hungarian painter and writer of realism .
Life
Family, youth and studies
Árpád was born on Christmas Eve 1856 in the then Upper Hungarian town of Ógyalla (Slovak: Hurbanovo ) in Neutra County. His birth name was Árpád Szilveszter Rehrenbeck: his father, the wealthy landowner Silvester Rehrenbeck (1819–1910), was of German descent , but from the 1850s took on Magyarized names for himself, his wife Jozefa (née Linzmayer) and his children . Árpád had a total of 14 siblings, but only eight reached adulthood. His brothers included u. a. the architects Adolf Feszty (1846–1900) and Gyula Feszty (1854–1912). Árpád was inspired by a keen sense and a "wandering imagination" and repeatedly came into conflict with his father. At first he received private tuition at home, then attended schools in Komorn and Ofen , and at the age of 18 graduated from a grammar school in Pressburg .
In 1874 he began studying painting at the Art Academy in Munich , u. a. with Karl Kubinsky . He attended the academy only irregularly, but created a number of his first landscape paintings and received exhibitions at the Munich Art Association . During a visit to two of his sisters in Budapest in 1877 he exhibited some of his pictures and met the bishop and art lover Arnold Ipolyi through Pál Gyulai , through whom he received grants for a study trip to Venice (1877) and studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (1879 to 1881) received. One of the most influential teachers in Vienna for him was the painter Eduard von Lichtenfels , and he now painted more religious pictures in addition to landscapes .
Homecoming and marriage
When he returned to Hungary he exhibited his work again and made a name for himself with his pictures “ Golgotha ” and “ Mine Disaster ”. After another trip to Italy (1884) he settled in Budapest. In 1885 he was commissioned to do landscape paintings on the ceiling of the auditorium of the Hungarian State Opera . Further orders for other public buildings followed, including a. an altarpiece of Joseph of Nazareth in St. Stephen's Basilica .
Already at the end of the 1870s Feszty met the painter Róza Jókai (1861–1936), granddaughter of the actress Róza Laborfalvi and ward of the poet Mór Jókai , whom he married in August 1888 in Fiume . Their daughter Masa Feszty (1895–1979) also became a painter. Árpád's closest friends included u. a. the poet Zsigmond von Justh and the painter László Mednyánszky .
Literary salon, the circular painting
In 1890 Árpád Feszty acquired a plot of land near the Epreskert and had a villa built in the Venetian neo-Gothic style until July 1890 . Róza's stepfather Mór was a widower at the time and decided to move in with the young couple. He lived on the upper floor while the Fesztys lived on the lower floor. The guests of the Fesztys included ministers, politicians, numerous actors, writers and painters and the villa soon developed into the most important literary salon in Hungary and a center of artistic and social life in Budapest. From the older generation, Kálmán Tisza and Kálmán Mikszáth were regular guests. Masa Feszty described the mood in the villa as a "glowing, tingling intellectual atmosphere".
During a visit to Paris in 1891, Árpád Feszty saw a circular painting and was so enthusiastic about this form of representation that he decided to create such a circular picture of the Flood . Mór Jókai and his wife saw the problems of financing such a company, and Feszty finally accepted his father-in-law's proposal to paint the "Entry of Hungarians" into the Carpathian Basin and on the Budapest , in view of the upcoming 1000th anniversary of the Hungarian conquest Exhibit Millennium Exhibition 1896 . Under the direction of Feszty from 1892 to 1894 up to 20 artists painted at times on the 120 meter long and 15 meter wide Feszty panorama in order to present the work of art to the public on Whit Sunday 1894 . Some landscapes are thanks to László Mednyánszky , the battle scenes to Pál Vágó . The picture was one of the greatest attractions of the Millennium Exhibition, but the income did not cover the cost of the picture and Feszty ran into great financial difficulties.
Crises, stay in Italy and the last few years
The glamorous era of the villa ended with a social scandal . In 1899, 74-year-old Jókai surprisingly married the then 20-year-old actress Bella Nagy . Since the Feszty couple found themselves increasingly exposed to public debate, they left the country that same year.
The Fesztys spent the years 1899 to 1912 in Florence . Árpád drew more and more and also began to write short stories. In 1907 the house had to be sold due to high debts. The villa was acquired by the Petőfi Literature Society, which converted it into a Literature Museum , the forerunner of today's Petőfi Literature Museum . Today the Feszty House ( Feszty-ház ) is part of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts .
In 1910 Feszty exhibited his latest works again in the National Salon, and in 1912 he returned to Budapest for good. The Fesztys now lived in a small 2-room apartment in Budapest's VII Elisabethstadt district . After several months of serious illness, Feszty died in 1914 at the age of 57 in the seaside resort of Lovran , Volosca district on the Austrian Riviera .
Work (selection)
The most important work of Feszty is the Feszty-Panorama (1894) named after him , an almost 1800 m² circular painting of the land conquest of the Magyars , which can be seen today in the National Historical Memorial Park Ópusztaszer . Other of his pictures also mostly had historical or religious themes as content.
More of his pictures can be found in the Hungarian State Opera , in the Palace of Justice, in the Hungarian Parliament building and in the St. Stephen's Basilica . Some of his works are now also in the possession of public museums: the Hungarian National Gallery , the Museum of Fine Arts , the Hungarian Museum of Natural Sciences , the Museum of Hungarian Culture and the Danube Region in Komárno and the Natural History Museum Vienna .
Conquest of the Magyars (detail),
oil on canvas,
15 m × 120 m (1894)
Golgotha (detail),
oil on canvas,
137 cm × 98.5 cm (1880)
Sketch ,
pastel on paper,
90 cm × 70 cm
Haymaking ,
oil on canvas,
141 cm × 116 cm
Mythological scene ,
oil on canvas,
53 cm × 34 cm
- 1880: Golgotha , Museum of Fine Arts
- 188 ?: Victims of the mine disaster , Museum of Fine Arts
- 1886: Kárvallottakat
- 1889: Mourning women at the tomb of Christ , Kunsthalle Budapest
- 1894: The arrival of the Magyars , Ópusztaszer National Historical Memorial Park
- 1902: Entombment of Christ
See also
literature
- Masa Feszty , Antal Ijjas: Feszty Árpád élete és művészete. Jel Kiadó, Budapest 1966.
- Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker : General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Seemann, Leipzig 1986.
- Árpád Szűcs, Małgorzata Wójtowicz: A Feszty-körkép. Helikon, Budapest 1999.
- Erzsébet Binderné Palocsay: A messzi csillagokról. Tiszaújváros 2005.
- Ulrike Kramme, Zelmira Urra-Muena: Hungarian biographical index. Saur, Munich 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Art and Life of Árpád Feszty . Árpád Feszty Cultural Park. December 6, 2000. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
- ↑ Feszty, Árpad. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 306.
- ↑ Béla Erdőssy: Magyar Katolikus lexicon . Hungarian Catholic Lexicon. Ed .: Szent István Társulat. tape 2 . Sankt Stefans Society, Budapest 1983, p. 59 (Hungarian, online [accessed March 16, 2013]).
- ↑ a b c d e Erzsébet Binderné Palocsay: A messzi csillagokról . Ed .: Derkovits Művelődési Központ és Városi Könyvtár. Tiszaújváros 2005 (Hungarian).
- ↑ Tünde Császtvay: Szalon-garnitúra, Az epreskerti Jókai szalon és Feszty-szalon ( Hungarian ) Budapest City Archives . April 1, 2004. Archived from the original on September 22, 2012. Retrieved on March 16, 2013.
- ↑ Gabriella Laskay: Feszty Árpád: A magyarok bejövetele ( Hungarian ) Széchényi National Library . 2004. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
Web links
- Entry about Árpád Feszty in the Hungarian Biographical Lexicon (MEK) of the National Széchényi Library (Hungarian)
- Literature by and about Árpád Feszty in the catalog of the German National Library
- www.opusztaszer.hu National Historical Memorial Park Ópusztaszer (hu, de, en)
- www.pim.hu Petőfi Literature Museum (hu, de, en)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feszty, Árpád |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rehrenbeck, Árpád Szilveszter (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ógyalla |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1914 |
| Place of death | Lovran |