Sándor Bihari
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 .
Works (selection)
- 1885 In the cross fire (Hungarian Kereszttűzben)
- 1886 Before the judge
- 1898 Zsigmond király és Ulászló találkozása Szent László sírjánál (Meeting of King Sigismund and King Ulászlo at the grave of St. László )
Honor
- 1896 Franz Joseph Order
literature
- Károly Lyka : Bihari, Sándor (Alexander) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 24 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Sándor Bihari in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Works on artnet.com
personal data | |
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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 |