Károly Markó the Elder

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Károly Markó the Elder Ä.
Ideal landscape

Károly Markó the Elder (born September 25, 1793 in Leutschau , today Levoča, Slovakia ; † November 19, 1860 Villa Appeggi near Antella, Florence ) was a Hungarian painter.

Life

Markó received his first drawing lessons from his father, but then studied technology in Klausenburg and Pest . From 1818 to 1821 he attended the drawing school in Pest before he entered the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1822 , where he stayed until 1824. He had his first successes as a painter in Vienna and took part in his first exhibition in 1826. From 1826 to 1830 he lived in Eisenstadt , from 1830 to 1834 again in Vienna. Here he painted Hungarian landscapes for Baron Geymüller. In 1834 Markó went to Rome , where he formed friendly relations with Joseph Anton Koch and Bertel Thorvaldsen , found artistic recognition and received commissions from the Austrian and Italian aristocracy. In 1838 he went to Pisa and from there took part in an architectural competition for the Budapest Parliament. In 1840 he became professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. From 1847 he finally lived in seclusion in the Villa Appeggi and made only a few trips. Markó was also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The artist's son, Károly Markó the Younger (1822-1891), was also a landscape painter who worked mostly in Vienna, but did not match his father's talent.

Works

Károly Markó began as a portrait painter, but soon turned to landscape painting, which he often enriched with biblical or mythological subjects. He drew on the painting tradition of the 17th century, especially Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin . His landscapes are always idealizing. He is one of the best landscape painters of his time.

  • Csorsztin and Nedecz (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1820, gouache, 34.7 × 48.6 cm
  • The Pest Organ (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1821, gouache, 4.6 × 6.4 cm
  • Visegrád (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1826–30, oil on canvas, 58.5 × 83 cm
  • Wanderer and his protector (private property), 1829, oil on canvas, 40 × 53 cm
  • Biblical scene - Jacob and Laban meeting (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1832, oil on panel, 39 × 52.5 cm
  • Diana on the Hunt - Hunting Nymphs (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1833, oil on panel, 39 × 52.5 cm
  • From the Pearl of Antiquity (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1833, oil on panel
  • Grape harvest - Tarantella (private collection), 1835, oil on canvas, 64 × 84 cm
  • View of Rome (private property), 1835, gouache on cardboard, 27 × 22.8 cm
  • The Toilet of Venus (private property), around 1830–40, gouache on cardboard, 19 × 26 cm
  • Women at the Well (private property), 1836, oil on canvas, 63.5 × 84 cm
  • Ideal Landscape (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), 1837, oil on canvas, 36 × 41.5 cm
  • Italian Landscape with Viaduct and Rainbow (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1838, oil on canvas, 75 × 100 cm
  • Surroundings of Tivoli (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1839, oil on canvas, 63 × 84.5 cm
  • The Baptism of Christ in the Jordan (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1840–41, oil on panel, 44 × 64.5 cm
  • The Roman Campagna at Ceraites (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1843, oil on canvas, 76 × 100.5 cm
  • Landscape near Tivoli with a vintner scene (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1846, oil on canvas, 116 × 163 cm
  • The Death of Eurydice (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1847, oil on cardboard, 28.5 × 41 cm
  • View of Appeggi (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1848, oil on canvas, 39.5 × 55.3 cm
  • Landscape with the calling of St. Petrus (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), 1848, oil on panel
  • Fischer (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1851, oil on canvas, 110 × 164.5 cm
  • Landscape with Ox Cart (private property), 1851, oil on canvas, 45 × 58 cm
  • The Puszta (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1853, oil on canvas, 39.5 × 52 cm
  • Hungarian Landscape - Plain with Draw Well (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1853, oil on canvas, 41 × 53 cm
  • Encounter between Ruth and Boaz (private property), 1857, oil on canvas, 107 × 138 cm
  • Aqua Nera near Rome (Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery), 1858, oil on canvas, 113 × 141.5 cm

literature

Web links

Commons : Károly Markó  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ not as often stated in the literature 1791; Information according to information from the Hungarian National Gallery, see hu: Id. Markó Károly
personal data
SURNAME Markó, Károly the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dear, Mihály from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Leutschau
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1860
Place of death Florence