Béla Spányi

Béla K. Spányi , also Adalbert Spányi (born March 19, 1852 in Pest , † June 12, 1914 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian landscape painter.

Life

Spányi was the son of an official. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and spent longer periods of study in Munich and Paris. From 1878 he worked in Szolnok and remained connected to the local artists' colony . He then worked in Bodajk and in 1887 was again in Munich for a long time. Spányi exhibited at exhibitions in the Budapest Art Gallery . As a public commission, he furnished the parliament building in Budapest with five frescos and was involved as an artist in the creation of the Feszty panorama , now in Ópusztaszer , as an employee of Árpád Feszty ; From 1892 to 1894 he worked on the monumental panorama The Entry of Hungarians . More pictures of him are in the Hungarian National Gallery . Spányi also worked as an illustrator. He was buried on the Kerepesi temető , where his tomb has been preserved. The Magyar Nemzeti Bank, the Hungarian central bank , issued two coins in his memory.

Fragment: Transylvania panorama from 1897 ( commons )

In 1897 he was also involved in the large "Transylvania Panorama" (also known as Bem in Transylvania). This painting is only partially preserved. It was made under the direction of the Polish painter Jan Styka in the rotunda building in Stryjskyj Park in Lviv , where the Racławice panorama was previously shown in 1894 . The "Transylvania Panorama" showed the conquest of Sibiu on March 11, 1849 by the troops of General Józef Bem .

literature

Spányi, Béla from. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, p. 779 ( archive.org ).
Károly Lyka : Spányi, Bela . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 332 .
Enikő Buzási : Spányi, Béla (Adalbert) von (1852–1914), painter. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 2 f. (Direct links on p. 2 , p. 3 ).

Web links

Commons : Béla Spányi - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commemorative coins in honor of Béla Spányi @ Coin Update

Individual evidence

↑ Stala wystawa fragmentów "Panoramy Siedmiogrodzkiej" - Permanent Exhibition of "The Transylvanian Panorama" fragment. Muzeum Okręgowe w Tarnowie, 2017, accessed on April 15, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Spányi, Béla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Spányi, Béla K .; Spányi, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	pest
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 1914
Place of death	Budapest

[1] Stala wystawa fragmentów "Panoramy Siedmiogrodzkiej" - Permanent Exhibition of "The Transylvanian Panorama" fragment. Muzeum Okręgowe w Tarnowie, 2017, accessed on April 15, 2020 .