László Mednyánszky

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László Mednyánszky

László Mednyánszky , Baron von Mednyánszky, actually Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky, (born April 30, 1852 in Beczkó ; † April 17, 1919 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian landscape painter .

Life

Mednyanszky came from a Hungarian aristocratic family , his parents were landowners. In 1861 the family moved to his grandfather's castle in Nagyőr (Strážky) near Szepesbéla (now a district) in northern Hungary. At the age of eleven he received lessons from the traveling Austrian painter Thomas Ender . He attended school in Käsmarkt (ung. Késmárk) , went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1872/73 and to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1875 . He painted for a while in the Montmartre district , exhibited his first landscape painting in Munich in 1877 and returned to his homeland after 1877. He didn't stay there for long and for the rest of his life he traveled a lot through Europe (especially in his home country Hungary and (today's) Slovakia). In 1878 he was in Italy. After his mother's death in 1883, he returned to Nagyőr, where he lived in seclusion and helped with the outbreak of a cholera epidemic in 1887 .

In 1888 he received the Prize of the Society for Fine Arts in Budapest. From 1889 to 1892 he lived mainly in Paris, but returned to his homeland regularly until around 1900. His father died in 1895. In 1897 he had a successful solo exhibition at the Georges Petit gallery in Paris. From 1905 to 1911 he lived in Budapest and then in Vienna.

During the First World War he was a war painter in the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter , where he was artistically active in the Serbian, Russian and Italian theater of war. Some works from this creative period are now in the Vienna Army History Museum .

In 1918 he returned to his hometown to recover from a war wound, then lived in Budapest and died in Vienna. At the request of the Hungarian government, his body was transferred to Budapest in 1966.

He was influenced by the Impressionists and mainly painted landscapes and scenes with simple people , often from his homeland northeast Hungary (today's Slovakia ), the Carpathian Mountains or the Hungarian Plain .

Many of his pictures and sketches are in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest. Many of the works are in the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava and at Stražky Castle near Spišská Belá (now a district).

Mednyánszky's grave in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest

gallery

  • Shylock

  • Autumn Landscape, around 1890

  • Beef potions

  • Fishermen on the Tisza

  • Hills in Spring, 1903/4

  • At the iron gate

  • Edge of the forest with crosses 1914–1918

literature

  • I. Kirimi-Kisdégi in Kindler's Malereilexikon, dtv 1982

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Österreichisches Heeresmuseum (Ed.): Catalog of the war picture gallery of the Austrian Army Museum , Vienna 1923, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Mednyánszky, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Beczkó
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1919
Place of death Vienna