Kornel Spányik
Kornel Spányik (born October 29, 1858 in Pressburg , † February 22, 1943 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian painter.
Life
Spányik was a son of Carl Spányik and his wife Carola, nee. Baintner. The officer and wing adjutant of Emperor Franz Joseph I. Adalbert Spányik von Dömeháza was his brother only 10 months older. From 1876 to 1880 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Christian Griepenkerl and was a student of Alexander von Liezen-Mayer in Munich, as well as a particularly formative student of Gyula Benczúr in his master's atelier in Budapest. Spányik emerged as a portrait painter and creator of quite colorful salon genres, he continued to work as a history painter and created altarpieces. In 1886 he created several frescos for the theater in Pressburg, which is now the old building of the Slovak National Theater . In 1887 he took part in the exhibition of the Preßburger Kunstverein, of which he became second chairman in 1907. From 1919 he lived and worked in Budapest. His works can be found in the Hungarian National Gallery and the major Hungarian museums.
literature
- Spányik, Kornel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 332 .
- Katarina Beňová, Anna Petrová-Pleskotová: Spányik, Kornel (Cornel, Cornelius) (1858–1943), painter. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . Volume 13, 59th delivery, 2007, p. 3 ( biographien.ac.at ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Spányik, Kornel (Cornelius) . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 4 : Raab – Vezzo . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 314 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spányik, Kornel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spáni, Kornelius; Spányik, Kornelius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pressburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1943 |
| Place of death | Budapest |