Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry

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Self-portrait, oil on canvas, c. 1893, inventory of the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry [ ˈtivɒdɒr ˈkostkɒ ˈʧontvaːri ] (* July 5, 1853 in Kisszeben (today Sabinov , Slovakia ); † June 20, 1919 in Budapest ; real name Mihály Tivadar Kosztka , stage name Csontváry ) was a Hungarian painter who produced expressive Painted colors.

Life

By profession a pharmacist, following an inspiration, he only became a painter at the age of 41. He traveled to countries such as Palestine, Lebanon, Sicily, Greece, Bosnia and Egypt, from where he brought a multitude of impressions with him, which he artistically processed for his pictures, especially of landscapes. He is not actually considered a naive painter because, despite naive echoes, he developed his painting to high mastery in expression and composition. Some of his pictures have monumental formats of up to 4 by 7 meters and are attributed to Expressionism , but also contain elements of Post-Impressionism .

His first oil paintings date from 1894. With increasing age Csontváry suffered from latent schizophrenia , his creative phase was therefore short and ended in 1910, after 16 years. Many painters who learned of his art, u. a. Picasso , paid him great tribute. Yet he died impoverished and lonely.

reception

On December 15, 2006, Csontváry's most expensive painting at the time was sold to an unknown buyer for more than one million euros in an auction at the Budapest Galerie Kieselbach. The oil painting dates from 1902 and bears the title “The Meeting of the Beloved” (Hungarian: “Randevú”).

A large number of Csontváry's pictures can be seen today in the Csontváry Museum in Pécs .

gallery

  • "Child in red dress" (Hungarian: Piros Ruhás gyermek), oil on cardboard c. 1894, private collection

  • "Butterflies" (Hungarian: Pillangók), oil on cardboard 1893,

  • "The hawk and the ptarmigan" (Hungarian: Héja hófajddal), oil on cardboard 1893, from Csontváry Múzeum , Pécs

  • "Old Fisherman", oil on canvas 1902, holdings Ottó Herman Museum , Miskolc

  • "Lovers" (Hungarian: Szerelmespár), oil on canvas 1902

  • "Shipwreck" (Hungarian: Hajótörés), oil on canvas 1903, private collection

  • “Ruins of the Greek theater in Taormina” (Hungarian: A taorminai görög színház romjai), oil on cardboard, 1904/05, from the Csontváry Múzeum , Pécs

  • “The lonely cedar” (Hungarian: Cskt-maganyos cedrus), oil on canvas 1907, in Csontváry Múzeum , Pécs

Web links

Commons : Csontváry Kosztka Tivadar  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] , entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica
personal data
SURNAME Csontváry, Tivadar Kosztka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kosztka, Mihály Tivadar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Kisszeben (today Sabinov , Slovakia)
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1919
Place of death Budapest