Jenő Gyárfás (6 April 1857, in Sepsiszentgyörgy – 3 December 1925, in Sepsiszentgyörgy, renamed Sfântu Gheorghe) was a Hungarian portrait painter, graphic artist and writer.

Biography

From 1873 to 1877, he studied at the newly created Hungarian Royal Drawing School in Budapest, under the history painter Bertalan Székely. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with Alexander von Wagner,

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and Wilhelm von Diez.Life and works
@ the Képzőművészet Magyarországon Galériá He soon decided that he would like to specialize in paintings of figures and portraits, beginning with his fellow student,

Bertalan Karlovszky Bertalan Karlovszky (24 October 1858, Munkács – 11 April 1938, Budapest) was a Hungarian painter. Biography His parents moved to Budapest when he very young and he attended the public schools there. Showing no interest in a higher educatio ...

. His paintings of Vienna, Budapest and Munich were praised, but failed to attract buyers or patrons, so he supported himself by creating illustrations for the local magazines. In 1882, he was awarded a state scholarship to study in Italy, but remained for only a short time, taking a position as an art teacher in Sepsiszentgyörgy. Once there, he found himself isolated from all of the contemporary trends in painting, although he continued to do the same sort of work he had done in Munich. In 1896, as part of the "Hungarian Millennium Celebrations", he produced a canvas of King

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, swearing an oath not to retaliate against

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@ ArtPortal. He wrote odes, romances and ballads which he illustrated himself, although apparently none of them are currently available. During this time, he also participated in illustrating ''

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'', known as the "Kronprinzenwerk" for short; a 24-volume encyclopedia overseen by Crown Prince Rudolf. He remained in his hometown after it became part of Romania in 1920, but his work suffered due to the effects of an eye disease and unspecified family problems. His former studio there now houses a small museum and exhibition hall, named after him.

Selected paintings

File:Gyárfás, Jenő - Youth and Age (1887).jpg, Youth and Age (1887) File:Gyárfás Portrait of Bertalan Karlovszky 1880.jpg, Portrait of

(1880) File:Gyárfás, Jenő - The Ordeal of the Bier (1881).jpg, The Ordeal of the Bier (1881), a scene from a ballad by János Arany File:Gyárfás Piety.jpg, Piety (date unknown)

References

External links

"A Baedeker of the Soul"
''Ordeal of the Bier'' by Gyárfás. An appreciation with a link to the ballad by Arany @ Hungarian Art History

in '' Nyugat'', 1926, from the Elektronikus Periodika Archívum
The “Gyárfás Jenő” Art Gallery in Sepsiszentgyörgy
@ Muzeul Național Secuiesc {{DEFAULTSORT:Gyarfas, Jeno 1857 births 1925 deaths People from Sfântu Gheorghe Hungarian illustrators 19th-century Hungarian painters 20th-century Hungarian painters Hungarian male painters Hungarian graphic artists 19th-century Hungarian male artists 20th-century Hungarian male artists

Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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