Antal Ligeti

Antal Ligeti (illustration from Vasárnapi Ujság by Zsigmond Pollák 1883)

Antal Ligeti (born January 10, 1823 in Nagykároly , † January 5, 1890 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian landscape painter .

Life

Ligeti was initially a merchant, but went to Italy to train as an artist in 1845 , where he joined the landscape painter Károly Markó in Florence , and returned in 1848.

At the expense of Count Stephan Károlyi, Ligeti undertook a study trip of several years to Egypt , Palestine , Lebanon , Damascus , Cyprus , Rhodes , the Greek islands, Malta and Sicily in 1855 .

He settled in Pest in 1861 , where he was curator at the picture gallery .

Ligeti's grave in Budapest

Works (selection)

Of his landscape paintings are worth highlighting:

• Taormina
• Girgenti
• Cedar forest
• Budapest
• The Sahara desert
• Visegrud
• The Neusiedler See
• Bethlehem
• Nazareth
• Old graves in Lebanon
• Mar Saba Monastery in the Kidron Valley

gallery

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  Palermo

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  Trencsény Castle

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  Old tree trunk

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  The Temple of Juno in Agrigen

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  Coastal town

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  Visegrád

literature

• Ligeti, Anton. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 874 ( archive.org ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Ligeti, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 15th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1866, p. 181 ( digitized version ).
• Ligeti, Antal . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 218 .
• Benda:  Ligeti Antal. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 211 f. (Direct links on p. 211 , p. 212 ).

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