Szolnok Painting School

August von Pettenkofen: Market in Szolnok , between 1870 and 1880. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

The Szolnok School of Painting (Hungarian Szolnoki művésztelep ) was an Austro-Hungarian artist colony from the second half of the 19th century in the Hungarian city of Szolnok (German Sollnock ).

Around 1850 the Viennese painter August von Pettenkofen (1822–1889) founded the Szolnok School of Painting, a painting colony. Thanks to the special lighting conditions there, interesting landscapes were created that had a lasting influence on Austrian landscape painting . The works belong to the Biedermeier union genre painting , and later to the Vienna atmospheric impressionism .

Theodor von Hörmann: Hungarian landscape with cattle trough , 1884. Austrian gallery Belvedere

Representations of Hungarian peasant scenes are particularly typical, e.g. B. from markets, farms and wagons.

The main representatives of the Szolnok School of Painting include the founder August von Pettenkofen

• the " Puszta painter" Johann Gualbert Raffalt (1836–1865),
• Theodor von Hörmann (1840–1895),
• August Schaeffer von Wienwald (1833–1916),
• Tina Blau (1845-1916).

Representatives of Hungarian landscape painting, who worked in Szolnok, were among others

August Schaeffer von Wienwald: Hungarian landscape, around 1870. Austrian gallery Belvedere

• Pál (Paul) Böhm (1839–1905),
• Lajos Deák Ébner (1850–1934),
• Gyula Aggházy (1850-1919),
• László Mednyánszky (1852–1919),
• Sándor Bihari (1855-1906).

literature

• Austrian Gallery Belvedere (ed.): T he Szolnok School of Painting. A Szolnoki festőiskola. Self-published. the Austrian Gallery, Vienna 1975.
• Mária Egri: A Szolnoki Művésztelep , Budapest, 1977. ISBN 963-336-105-2 .