Ferenc Szoldatits

Ferenc Szoldatits (also Ferenc Szoldatics ; born November 29, 1820 in the Vörösberény district of Balatonalmádi , Hungary ; † January 25, 1916 in Rome , Italy ) was a Hungarian painter .

Life

Ferenc Szoldatits studied between 1840 and 1848 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Leopold Kupelwieser and Joseph von Führich , both of whom were influenced by stays in Rome by Friedrich Overbeck and the Nazarenes . In 1853 he went to Rome, where he met Friedrich Overbeck and joined the Nazarenes. In 1859 he went on a study trip to Munich and Dresden . In 1867 he married the Italian Margherita Waldis. His son Giorgio Szoldatits (born May 22, 1873 in Rome, † June 1955 in Rome) was also a painter.

Create

Ferenc Szoldatits used stylistic means of the Quattrocento and looked for a new religious expression in art. He mainly created altarpieces and frescoes for churches in Italy and Hungary as well as portraits of well-known people. He contributed to the design of the Cathedral of Kalocsa of the Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Kecskemét ; In 1859 (or earlier) he painted the altarpiece for the Oratorian Church in London , in 1881 the fresco in the Lady Chapel of Eger Cathedral , in 1883 the main altar of the church in Jászberény , in 1888 the main altar of the church in Jánoshalma and in 1896 the altarpiece with Saints Emmerich and Margareta in the Episcopal Palace of Veszprém . He painted portraits of Popes Pius IX, among others . and Leo XIII. (1879).

In 1873 works by Szoldatits were shown at the world exhibition in Vienna.

Ferenc Szoldatits was one of the last representatives of the Hungarian Nazarenes. With his later works he also influenced the members of the artists' colony of Gödöllő , whose leading representatives Sándor Nagy (1869–1950) and Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch (1863–1920) were frequent guests in his house in Rome.

Works by Ferenc Szoldatits can be found in the Magyar Nemzeti Galéria in Budapest, in the Bakony Múzeum (today Laczkó Dezső Múzeum) in Veszprém , in the Keresztény Múzeum in Esztergom and in the picture gallery of the Archdiocese of Eger .

Web links

• Enikő Buzási :  Szoldatits (Szoldatics) Ferenc. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 169.

Individual evidence

1. ^ German extracts from Hungarian scientific journals. Budapest 1934, p. 52 (PDF; 6.2 MB).
2. ^ Andor Lakatos: Szűz Mária tiszteletéről 1951-ben, a Kalocsai Főegyházmegyében. In: Határjelek és Hagyásfák. Baja, 2014, p. 606, footnote 17 (PDF; 527 kB).
3. ↑ The London Oratory of St. Philip Neri and the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on british-history.ac.uk
4. ↑ Buskó András: 46) Eger (székesegyház). ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Lengyel emlékhelyak. Budapest, 2003, p. 28 (PDF; 956 kB). 
5. ↑ A nagytemplom a város közepén - Jászberény on keptar.oszk.hu
6. ↑ A templom története on janoshalma.hu
7. ↑ Szent Imre nyomában Veszprémben on familiamagazin.hu
8. ↑ Szoldatits Ferenc in the Magyar Katolikus Lexicon (Hungarian)
9. ↑ ^{a b} Éva Péteri: Victorian Approaches to Religionas Reflected in the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 2003, p. 14, footnote 22 (PDF; 2.1 MB).