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List Of Famous Hungarians
This is a list of Hungarians notable within Hungary and/or abroad. It includes notable Hungarians born outside present-day Hungary. Architects Artists *Gyula Aggházy *Károly Antal *Franz Liszt *Miklós Borsos *Sándor Bortnyik *Francois Colos *Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka *Gyula Donáth *Orshi Drozdik *János Fadrusz *Béni Ferenczy *István Ferenczy * Arpad Feszty *Simon Hantaï * János Horvay *László Hudec *Miklós Izsó *Zoltán Joó *Ede Kallós *André Kertész *Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl *Márta Lacza *Paul László *Philip de László *Miklós Ligeti *Imre Makovecz *János Major * Zsuzsa Máthé *David Merlini *László Moholy-Nagy *István Orosz *János Pásztor *József Róna * Albert Schickedanz * Henriett Seth-F. *Pal Szinyei Merse *László Szlávics, Jr. * Adam Szentpétery *Mór Than * János Tornyai *Lajos Vajda *Victor Vasarely *János Vaszary *Nándor Wagner * Marika Száraz Aviators World War I aviators World War II aviators Business professionals * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary has a population of nearly 9 million, mostly ethnic Hungarians and a significant Romani minority. Hungarian, the official language, is the world's most widely spoken Uralic language and among the few non-Indo-European languages widely spoken in Europe. Budapest is the country's capital and largest city; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr. The territory of present-day Hungary has for centuries been a crossroads for various peoples, including Celts, Romans, Germanic tribes, Huns, West Slavs and the Avars. The foundation of the Hungarian state was established in the late 9th century AD with the conquest of the Carpathian Basin by Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miklós Izsó
Miklós Izsó ( hu, Izsó Miklós, german: Nikolaus Izsó; September 9, 1831, Disznós-Horvát (now ''" Izsófalva"'', Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, north-east Hungary) - May 29, 1875, Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor whose sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and academic An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ... style. References External links *Biography and works of Miklós Izsó 19th-century Hungarian people Hungarian sculptors Hungarian expatriates in Austria Hungarian expatriates in Germany Hungarian Revolution of 1848 People from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis 1831 births 1875 deaths Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni Burials at Kerepesi Cemetery 19th-century sculptors Tuberculosis deaths in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. The art critic Peter Schjeldahl called him "relentlessly experimental" because of his pioneering work in painting, drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, theater, and writing. He also worked collaboratively with other artists, including his first wife Lucia Moholy, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Herbert Bayer. His largest accomplishment may be the School of Design in Chicago, which survives today as part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, which art historian Elizabeth Siegel called "his overarching work of art". He also wrote books and articles advocating a utopian type of high modernism. Early life and education (1895–1922) Moholy-Nagy was born László Weisz in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Merlini
David Merlini is a Hungarian-Italian escape artist, and World Record holder, described by Expo 2015 as the world's most famous escapologist, currently serving as Director of The House of Houdini, the only Houdini museum in Europe. Merlini's signature performances had been broadcast live in some of the most relevant television networks worldwide. Early life and career His mother is Hungarian and his father is Italian. He was raised in Italy, where he moved with his family from Hungary at the age of 4. Around the age of 4, Merlini became interested in locks and handcuffs. As a child, he was given a magic trick, which founded his career. Around 13, Merlini attended night school at Turin's Circolo Amici della Magia, an illusionist school. When he was 17, he returned to Hungary, the country he regards as his homeland. Merlini cited Harry Houdini, who had also been born in Hungary, as a major source of inspiration. Milestones of his career 1995 At Sziget'95 (now called the Sziget F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
János Major
János Major''(Budapest, May 8, 1934 – June 12, 2008) was a Hungarian graphic artist, painter and photographer from Budapest. He was born as Janos Neufeld to a Jewish family in Budapest. From 1947 to 1950, he attended a private school, and later, a High School for Fine and Applied Arts. In 1950, his mother married Bela Major, which made him and his sister adopt the name Major as their last name. Upon high school graduation, he got accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest where he studied graphic reproduction: etching, lithography, and woodcut under Karoly Koffan. His diploma work in 1959 was etchings of women workers at an electronics factory. He married and later divorced, Eva Buchmuller. He is survived by their two daughters, Rebecca and Borbala Major. Career In the 1960s, he experimented with mezzotint, line engraving, aquatint, acids on steel plates, and imprints into vernis mou. His epic etching In Memoriam of Moric Scharf, a reference to a famous Hungarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imre Makovecz
Imre Makovecz (November 20, 1935 – September 27, 2011) was a Hungarian architect active in Europe from the late 1950s onward. Makovecz was born and died in Budapest. He attended the Technical University of Budapest. He was founder and "eternal and executive president" of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. He was an award-winning architect, having won Ybl Prize, Kossuth Prize, Steindl Imre Prize and Prima Primissima Award among many others. Makovecz was one of the most prominent proponents of organic architecture. As such, his buildings attempt to work with the natural surroundings rather than triumph over them. Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolf Steiner are both strong influences, as is traditional Hungarian art. His work began as a critique of communist ideology and the brutal uniformity of system building, but after the fall of the Communist regime in 1989, it became a comment on the nature of globalisation and corporate culture. In its attempts to refer to and build on Hungari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miklós Ligeti
Miklós Ligeti (May 1, 1871 – December 10, 1944) was a Hungarians, Hungarian sculptor and artist. His sculptural style integrated elements of impressionism and Realism (arts), realism. Early life Ligeti was born in Pest, Hungary, Pest. At first a pupil of Alajos Stróbl in Budapest, Ligeti later studied in Vienna, Austria. Artistic career Ligeti was also the sculptor of a statue honoring Major General Harry Hill Bandholtz, US Army, for his service to Hungary after World War I. It was installed at the US Embassy in 1936, but was later removed by the communist government after World War II. It was replaced in 1989. It has been moved again, to Freedom Park, across from the US Embassy. Ligeti was the President of the Hungarian Society of Applied Arts. He died in Budapest. External linksBiography and works by Miklós Ligeti Hungarian sculptors 1871 births 1944 deaths People from Pest, Hungary 20th-century sculptors {{Hungary-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip De László
Philip Alexius László de Lombos (born Fülöp Laub; hu, Fülöp Elek László; 30 April 1869 – 22 November 1937), known professionally as Philip de László, was an Anglo-Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages. In 1900, he married the Anglo-Irish socialite Lucy Guinness, and he became a British subject in 1914. Early life László was born in humble circumstances in Budapest as Fülöp Laub, the eldest son of Adolf and Johanna Laub, a tailor and seamstress of Jewish origin. Fülöp and his younger brother Marczi changed their surname to László in 1891. He was apprenticed at an early age to a photographer while studying art, eventually earning a place at the National Academy of Art, where he studied under Bertalan Székely and Károly Lotz. He followed this with studies in Munich and Paris. László's portrait of Pope Leo XIII earned him a Grand Gold Medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1900. In 1903, Lás ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul László
Paul László or Paul Laszlo (6 February 1900 – 27 March 1993) was a Hungarian-born architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries. László built his reputation while designing interiors for houses, but in the 1960s, largely shifted his focus to the design of retail and commercial interiors. Biography He was born (as Lamberger Pal) in Debrecen, Hungary, to Jewish parents Lamberger Ignác and László Regina (née Schwarcz). His family later moved to Szombathely, Hungary. Sources citing his birthplace as Budapest are incorrect. He had three sisters and two brothers; two of his sisters and both of his parents were murdered in the Holocaust along with seven other relatives not in his immediate family. László completed his education in Vienna, Austria before moving to Stuttgart, Germany, where he rapidly established himself as a prominent designer, winning the admiration of, among others, Salvador Dalí. However, the rising tide of anti-sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Márta Lacza
Márta Lacza (born December 2, 1946) is a Hungarian graphic artist and portrait painter. She has one brother Jozsef Lacza who lives in Canada Toronto with his son Peter Anthony Lacza. She was born in the Csepel district of Budapest in 1946. In 1967, she graduated from Fine Arts High School and then studied from 1970 to 1974 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts under Simon Sarkantyú and Károly Raszler. Since then, she has had numerous solo exhibitions at home and abroad, and her works have been shown in London, Hamburg, Eindhoven, Ghent, Copenhagen and Athens. She was awarded a Derkovits Scholarship (1980–1983) and won the Munkácsy Prize in 1983. A 40-minute television programme about her, titled ''A Tv galériája. Lacza Márta grafikusművész'' (''The TV gallery. Lacza Martha graphic artist''), was broadcast on Magyar Televízió, the Hungarian national public broadcaster, in March 1982. She took part in the first "Frans Masereel Rijkscentrum voor graphite" internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsigmond Kisfaludi Stróbl
Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl (1 July 1884 – 14 August 1975) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist. His sculptural style integrated elements of realism and academism Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie d ... style mainly engaged in creating portrait busts. External linksBiography and works by Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl {{DEFAULTSORT:Kisfaludi Strobl, Zsigmond Hungarian sculptors 1884 births 1975 deaths 20th-century sculptors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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