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Tamás Kieselbach: Hungarian Art and Music
Art collector, dealer and historian Tamás Kieselbach illuminates the exciting encounters of Hungarian art and music in this stunning book. The overlaps are interpreted by well-known art historians, focusing on the outstanding painters, musicians and performers from the academic painting of the 19th century, through Art Deco, to Béla Kondor’s oeuvre. Kieselbach explains the topic of Hungarian painting in a completely new way, arguing that it should be presented to the world as bound to other branches of art: music, literature, and photography.
Jenő Barcsay: Anatomy for the Artist
Jenő Barcsay (1900-1988), one of the most significant Hungarian painters of the 20th century, expertly crafted mosaics, graphics and paintings. As a professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, he launched many young talents on their artistic paths and continues to influence them. After a decade of teaching, he began to collect the basic anatomical and shape ideas that are essential to the artistic profession. Now the former anatomy professor’s drawings serve as a teaching tool, but their beauty also draws in every observer, helping to appreciate works of art.
József Vadas: Hungarian Masterpieces
The first work is a scene from the Anjou Legend from the 1330s, the last is a painting by Béla Kondor from 1962, and the collection also includes several paintings by Mihály Munkácsy, Tivadar Csontváry and József Rippl-Rónai. Descriptions accompany the impressive works, providing the reader with an idea of the time and techniques behind a painting, bringing readers closer to an understanding of Hungarian art.
András Székely: Munkácsy
Mihály Munkácsy (1844-1900) is perhaps the most celebrated Hungarian painter of the 19th century, famed for his realist portraits and still-lifes. He began to paint as a youth and continued his formal studies in the academies of Vienna, Munich and Düsseldorf. Munkácsy painted two monumental works toward the end of his career: „Hungarian Conquest” for the House of Parliament, and a fresco, „Apotheosis of Renaissance,” for the ceiling of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
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