Sándor Bihari

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Sándor Bihari, self-portrait around 1890
Before the judge (1886)

Sándor Bihari (born May 19, 1855 in Rézbánya , † March 28, 1906 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian genre painter .

Life

Sándor Bihari, from a Jewish family, spent his childhood in Greater Oradea . At first he worked for his father, a poor carpenter. In 1874 he went to Budapest to the drawing school of Bertalan Székely . He also earned his living as a retoucher . In 1876 he went to Vienna with his meager savings . There he wanted to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts , but first had to hire himself again as a retoucher until Bertalan Székely supported him financially and thus made the academy visit possible. After returning to his homeland, Bihari worked as a portrait painter for three years . Again he found a patron. The Budapest art connoisseur Hugo Tausig made it possible for him to study Impressionist open-air painting at the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens in 1883 . Again Bihari had to earn a living; copied pictures for art dealers in the Louvre . Back in Hungary, he stayed in Szolnok during the summer . Long travels took him to Holland , Belgium , Munich and Italy in the early 1890s , until he fell ill in 1893. Most of the last years he spent in Budapest. In 1902 he founded an artists' colony in Szolnok .

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SURNAME Bihari, Sándor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bihari, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Rézbánya
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1906
Place of death Budapest