Pál Szinyei Merse
Pál Szinyei Merse (born July 4, 1845 in Szinyeujfalu , Sáros County , Austrian Empire ; † February 2, 1920 in Jernye , Czechoslovakia ; also Paul Merse von Szinyei ) was a Hungarian painter.
Life
Pál Szinyei Merse studied painting in Munich from 1864 under Sándor Wagner and from 1867 to 1869 under Karl von Piloty . There he met Arnold Böcklin , Gabriel Max , Hans Makart and Wilhelm Leibl, among others . Inspired by the latter, he turned to realistic outdoor painting .
His main work Breakfast in the Open (1872/73) was not understood by his contemporaries for a long time. Therefore Szinyei Merse withdrew from 1882 and stopped painting for a while. He lived as a Hungarian nobleman and became a member of the Hungarian Parliament (1879-1901). During this time he advocated a reform of artist education. In 1905 friends persuaded him to exhibit his breakfast in the open air again in Budapest, where it was celebrated stormily. In the following years he received numerous prizes and awards, such as 1900 in Paris , 1901 in Munich , 1904 in St. Louis , 1910 in Berlin and 1911 in Rome . When he visited Paris in 1908, he developed his style independently of other Impressionist painters, which characterizes his main work: he composes the colors of the pictures from harmonious complementary colors and uses lighting effects.
In 1905 he became director of the University of Fine Arts in Budapest . From this time until his death he promoted young artists and supported the work on the artists' colony of Nagybánya (today: Baia Mare , Romania ). In 1908 he founded Hungary's first society for modern art and the circle of Hungarian impressionists and naturalists. Shortly after his death in 1920, some of his students, including István Arató , founded the Szinyei Merse Society , which was artistically influential, especially up until the Second World War .
Szinyei Merses cousin was the landscape painter Julius von Gundelfinger . With him he went on excursions in the Munich area in the 1870s.
Works (selection)
- Sailboat on Lake Starnberg (1867)
- Breakfast in the open air (1872/1873)
- Woman in a Violet Dress (1874)
- Pál balloon (1882)
literature
- A. Szinyei Merse: Szinyei Merse Pál. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 161 f. (Direct links on p. 161 , p. 162 ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szinyei Merse, Pál |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Szinyei Merse, Pál von; Szinyei Merse, Paul von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szinyeujfalu , Sáros County , Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1920 |
| Place of death | Jernye , Czechoslovakia |