Ferenc Eisenhut

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Ferenc Eisenhut
The death of Gül-Baba , 1886

Ferenc Eisenhut , also Ferencz or Franz Eisenhut , (born January 26, 1857 in Német-Palánka , † June 2, 1903 in Munich ) was a Hungarian oriental painter and illustrator. He created genre and history pictures.

Life and works

Ferenc Eisenhut began his studies in Budapest with Bertalan Székely and Imre Greguss . From 1877 he studied at the Munich Academy. His teachers there included Gyula Benczúr , Ludwig von Löfftz , Seitz and Diez . One result of his first trip to the Orient was the painting Healing through the Koran from 1883, which he first showed in Budapest. He later lived alternately in Munich and in the Orient; his genre paintings, whose sketches were made in the Caucasus , Syria , Bukhara , Egypt and Tunis , soon made him known. The death of Gül-Baba was awarded a gold medal in Budapest in 1886. In 1892 the children's school in Cairo in Munich was awarded a small gold medal, the following year at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , and in 1895 it was at least mentioned on the occasion of the exhibition in Paris . The painting cockfight in Cairo from 1894 was bought by the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Neue Pinakothek in Munich acquired the dispute over the spoils of war from 1901. Its depiction of the Battle of Zenta from 1896 became the property of Bács County -Bodrog over, the loss of Johann Hunyadi from the Belgrád fortress in 1456 from 1902 into the hands of the Hungarian state. An Oriental School from 1885 is owned by Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery.

Together with other painters, Eisenhut created a circular painting in Budapest in 1896 for the pageant in Hungary's millennium celebration . At the turn of the century he illustrated Petofi's poems.

After Eisenhut's death, his artistic estate was exhibited in Budapest.

The photographer Carl Teufel captured the artist's studio in a glass plate photograph that cannot be precisely dated.

Web links

Commons : Ferenc Eisenhut  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Thieme-Becker the painter is listed under "Ferenc Eisenhut", also in the DNB.
  2. ↑ To Oriental School at artuk.org
  3. ↑ Franz Eisenhut's artist studio at www.bildindex.de
personal data
SURNAME Eisenhut, Ferenc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisenhut, Franz; Eisenhut, Ferencz; Ajzenhut, Franc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Orient painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Német-Palánka
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1903
Place of death Munich