Károly Lyka

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Károly Lyka around 1921

Károly Lyka , German Karl von Lyka , (born January 4, 1869 in Pest , Austria-Hungary ; died April 30, 1965 in Budapest ), was a multi-talented Hungarian art historian , writer, translator, critic, painter, teacher, director, newspaper editor and botanists.

Life

Karl von Lyka, the son of a Munich architect, moved with the family to Neutra in 1873 . He graduated from the local high school. He trained as a painter and art historian in Germany and Italy. From 1887 he attended the painting school of Simon Hollósy in Munich. From October 13, 1888, he studied at the Munich Art Academy in the class of Johann Caspar Herterich . In Munich he met Béla Iványi-Grünwald (1867–1940), Lajos Márk (1867–1942), Tivadar Zemplényi (1864–1917), József Rippl-Rónai , János Thorma (1870–1937) and István Réti (1872–1945) ) and in Weimar with Adolf Fényes (1867–1945). From 1894 he dealt with art history in Naples and Rome and over time became an art writer in Italy, writing for Hungarian newspapers - for example for Pesti Napló . In Rome he met well-known journalists at Caffè Aragno - for example Matilde Serao . When Lajos Kossuth died in Turin in the early spring of 1894 , von Lyka went to the place of death as a correspondent for the Pesti Napló and participated in the transport of the remains of the national hero to his Hungarian homeland.

In the years around the turn of the 20th century he traveled - again as a correspondent for the Pesti Napló - through Italy and Greece. After the founding of the Nagybánya (Hungarian: Nagybányai művésztelep ) artists ' colony by Simon Hollósy, Béla Iványi-Grünwald, István Réti and János Thorma in 1902, Lyka stayed there occasionally and made the local painters known with his art reviews .

From 1902 to 1918 he published the magazine Művészet (Hungarian art ) in Budapest , with which he wanted to familiarize the conservative readership with tendencies in the then more modern art. From 1903 to 1911 he taught at the commercial drawing school in Budapest, from 1914 to 1936 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts , where he was rector from 1921 to 1923. As an art historian, he wrote - in addition to monographs on Michelangelo , Leonardo da Vinci , Raffael , Rembrandt and Mihály von Munkácsy - a great history of Hungarian art from 1800 to 1850 . He wrote numerous entries on Hungarian visual artists in all 36 volumes for the Thieme-Becker artist lexicon . In 1952 and 1964 he received the Kossuth Prize .

He married the Budapest painter Ida Minich (1866–1940), the widow of the Pest painter László Tóth (1869–1895).

Károly Lyka and his wife found their final resting place in the Kerepescher cemetery (grave 34 / 2-1-13) in Budapest.

Fonts (selection)

  • Official illustrated catalog. Fine arts exhibit, Hungary, St. Louis Exposition, 1904 . Viktor Hornyánszky, Budapest 1904 ( archive.org ).
  • Madarász Viktor , élete és mvei . A Pantheon irodalmi intézet részvénytársaság kiadása, Budapest 1920 ( archive.org ).
  • Michael of Munkacsy . Eligius-Verlag, Vienna and Budapest 1926.
  • Magyar müveszet 1800–1850 . Singer & Wolfner, Budapest 1939.
    • German: Hungarian Art 1800–1850 . Corvina, Budapest 1981.
  • Magyar müvészélet Münchenben 1867–1896 ( Hungarian artist life in Munich 1867–1896 ). Müvelt nép Könyvkiadó, Budapest 1951.
  • Great Hungarian painters of the 19th century. Corvina, Budapest 1954.
  • Michelangelo . Képzőműv. Kiadó, Budapest 1957; 3rd edition Corvina, Budapest 1976.
  • Raffaello . Corvina, Budapest 1959; 3rd edition 1967; 4th edition 1983.

literature

  • Elek Petrovics, Marcell Benedek u. a. (Ed.): Emlékkönyv Lyka Károly hetvenötödik születésnapjára. ( Festschrift for the seventy-fifth birthday of Károly Lyka ). Singer and Wolfner, Budapest 1944.
  • Studi di storia dell'arte dedicati a K. Lyka nel giorno del suo 85 compleanno . Budapest 1954.
  • Lyka, Károly . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 278 .

Web links

Commons : Károly Lyka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Entry in the matriculation book.
  2. ^ Pesti Napló - founded in 1850, discontinued in 1939.
  3. ↑ digitized version .
  4. ↑ Ida Minich
  5. ↑ grave .
personal data
SURNAME Lyka, Károly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lyka, Karoly; Lyka, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian art historian and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Plague (city)
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1965
Place of death Budapest