Jozsef Borsos (21 December 1821, in
Veszprém
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– 19 August 1883, in
Budapest
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) was a
Hungarian portrait painter and photographer; best known for his
genre
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paintings in the
Biedermeier
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style.
Life and work
His father, was a lawyer, editor and publisher. From 1837, he was a student of the religious artist, , in Budapest. He transferred to the
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna in 1840, where he studied with
Leopold Kupelwieser
Leopold Kupelwieser (17 October 1796, Markt Piesting – 17 November 1862, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, often associated with the Nazarene movement.
Life
He was the son of Johann Baptist Georg Kilian Kupelwieser (1760–1813), co-owner of a ...
. In 1843, he changed schools again, attending a private academy operated by
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.
He initially chose to live in Vienna, with a large clientele from the Austrian aristocracy. Financially successful, he lost most of his money speculating in the stock market, and returned to Budapest in 1861. There, he chose to abandon painting and opened a photography studio, together with a painter and photographer known as . Once again, he was able to accumulate a considerable fortune, but gave up photography and opened a restaurant, the "Szép Juhászné", which he ran for the rest of his life.
Many of his works are in private collections, but some may be seen at the
Hungarian National Gallery.
Sources
Biographical notes@ Fine Arts in Hungary
* Szabó Júlia: ''A XIX.század festészete Magyarországon'', Corvina Kiadó, 1985,
* Seregélyi György: ''Magyar festők és grafikusok adattára'', Szeged, 1988,
* Szvoboda Dománszky Gabriella: ''A magyar biedermeier (Stílusok-korszakok sorozat)'', Corvina Kiadó, 2011,
External links
More works by Borsos@ ArtNet
@ Fine Arts in Hungary
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1821 births
1883 deaths
19th-century Hungarian painters
Hungarian male painters
People from Veszprém
19th-century Hungarian male artists