György Vastagh (painter)

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György Vastagh [ ˈɟørɟ ˈvɒʃtɒɡ ] (born April 12, 1834 in Szeged , † February 21, 1922 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian painter.

Life

György Vastagh began painting in Szeged when he was young, and in 1849 took part in the fighting in the War of Independence ( Hungarian Revolution 1848/1849 ). From the beginning of the 1850s he enjoyed an artistic education in Vienna , where he was particularly influenced by Carl Rahl and Friedrich von Amerling . During his creative time in Vienna, György Vastagh devoted himself mainly to portraits and images of religious content.

In 1857 the artist moved to Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania and initially ran a photo studio with a friend ( Ferenc Veress ), and later started a family there. Four children arose from his marriage to Josephine Schell. In Transylvania he dealt again with portrait art, until he finally turned to subjects from the rural population. In 1876 the family moved to Budapest, György Vastagh moved into a studio in the city center. He established himself as a portraitist and has captured important personalities from the aristocracy, the established educated bourgeoisie and from politics. Lajos Kossuth , Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth (Sisi) sat as models in his studio. For almost three decades he was court painter to Archduke Joseph Karl Ludwig of Austria . In 1883 he was involved in furnishing the Hungarian State Opera (ceiling fresco in the foyer). More of his altarpieces can be found in Budapest, Szeged, Arad and Temesvár .

György Vastagh was the first artist in the Vastagh family. He is the father of the painter Géza Vastagh (1866–1919) and the sculptor György Vastagh (1868–1946), father-in-law of the forensic doctor and histologist Dr. Balázs Kenyeres (1865–1940) and the artisan Olga Benczúr (1875–1962) and grandfather of the sculptor Éva Vastagh (1900–1942) and the sculptor László Vastagh (1902–1972).

The Vastagh family is related to the Hungarian painter Gyula Benczúr and to the Bohemian artist family Max ( Gabriel von Max ).

Web links

Commons : György Vastagh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ László Barla-Szabó: A Vastagh Müvészcsalád. (The Vastagh family of artists) Budapest 2004, p. 4. ISBN 963-7032-05-3
  2. ^ A b Biography Vastagh, György the Elder on Fine Arts in Hungary
  3. ^ The Lutheran Church in Cinkota on the website of the Budapest City Protection Association, Working Group for Church History
  4. ↑ http://mucsarnok.hu/kiallitasok/kiallitasok.php?mid=56294b0b02b36 120 év a művészet szolgálatában - A Vastagh művészcsalád (120 years in the service of art - The Vastagh family of artists) accessed on June 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Vastagh, György
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1922
Place of death Budapest