József of Molnár

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József von Molnár (born March 21, 1821 in Zsámbék , Austrian Empire ; died February 6, 1899 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian portrait, landscape, genre and history painter.

Life

Molnar was the son of a notary. He attended the Pest Piarist High School . After attending the Lénárd Landau Pest school of drawing, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1837 , had to break off his studies after six months for financial reasons and return to Hungary. Then he lived in Pest and shortly afterwards in Cluj-Napoca .

In 1844 he came to Venice, where he became a student of the Academy of Fine Arts with the financial support of a patron. In 1845 he visited Rome , Naples and Pisa . From April 25, 1847, Molnár studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . In Munich he met the Hungarian landscape painter Sándor Brodszky , with whom he toured Bavaria , Switzerland and the Tyrolean mountains for almost two years .

In 1848 Molnár settled in Stuttgart , where he soon became known as a portrait painter. He portrayed a. a. King Wilhelm I of Württemberg .

Molnár settled in Pest in 1853. Together with Sándor Brodszky, he opened a photographic studio in Győr in 1862 , which only operated until 1864. Then he returned to Pest.

Some of his works were in the estate of Count Nikolaus Széchényi or in other estates that were exhibited in the Ernst Museum in Budapest in 1924 and auctioned off.

literature

K. Benda: Molnár, József. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 357.
Turcsányi Erzsébet: Molnár József 1821–1899. Budapest 1938.
Dénes Pataky: Hungarian Drawings and Water-colors. Corvina, Budapest 1961, p. 18.
Károly Lyka : Molnár, József . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 46-47 .

Web links

Commons : József Molnár - collection of images, videos and audio files

Matriculation Book Academy Munich

Individual evidence

↑ Dr. Széchényi Miklós Gróf Váradi Püspök hagyatéka, valamint főuri és más magánbirtokból származó festmények és műtárgyak = estate of Count Dr. Nikolaus Széchényi, Bishop of Grosswardein, as well as paintings and works of art from stately and other private collections . Ernst Múzeum, Budapest 1924, p. 50–51 (Hungarian, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ Különféle hagyatékokból, valamint főuri és más magánbirtokból származó festmények és műtárgyak = paintings and art objects from various estates, as well as from stately and other private property . Ernst Múzeum, Budapest 1924, p. 36–37 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - illustrations no. 458 The flight of King Béla IV. On panel XV and no. 464 The Tisza ferry on panel XX).

personal data
SURNAME	Molnár, József from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian portrait, landscape, genre and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zsámbék
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1899
Place of death	Budapest

[1] Dr. Széchényi Miklós Gróf Váradi Püspök hagyatéka, valamint főuri és más magánbirtokból származó festmények és műtárgyak = estate of Count Dr. Nikolaus Széchényi, Bishop of Grosswardein, as well as paintings and works of art from stately and other private collections . Ernst Múzeum, Budapest 1924, p. 50–51 (Hungarian, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Különféle hagyatékokból, valamint főuri és más magánbirtokból származó festmények és műtárgyak = paintings and art objects from various estates, as well as from stately and other private property . Ernst Múzeum, Budapest 1924, p. 36–37 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - illustrations no. 458 The flight of King Béla IV. On panel XV and no. 464 The Tisza ferry on panel XX).