Lili Árkayné Sztehló (7 November 1897 – 28 October 1959 in Budapest) was a Hungarian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

and artist, wife of

Bertalan Árkay Bertalan Árkay (Budapest, 11 April 1901 – Budapest, 23 November 1971)Árkay Bertalan

stained glass window paintings in parish churches and cathedrals throughout Hungary.

Biography

She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts studying under

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and Oszkár Glatz in 1923, later making scholarly trips to Rome and Paris. Initially, she was successful with her oil paintings, but by her late 20s she had become productive mainly in the field of ceramics and glass painting. Her major works include the glass windows of the City Hall of Mohács commemorating the

Battle of Mohács The Battle of Mohács (; hu, mohácsi csata, tr, Mohaç Muharebesi or Mohaç Savaşı) was fought on 29 August 1526 near Mohács, Kingdom of Hungary, between the forces of the Kingdom of Hungary and its allies, led by Louis II, and those ...

(1927), the painted glass windows of the Pasarét Church and Heart of Jesus Church in Városmajor in Budapest (1932) and of the Gyárváros Church in Győr (1929), the window of

St. Stephen's Mausoleum St. Stephen's Mausoleum is a memorial building to Stephen I of Hungary in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. It was built in the late 1930s behind the excavated ruins of the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary where Stephen had been orig ...

Székesfehérvár Székesfehérvár (; german: Stuhlweißenburg ), known colloquially as Fehérvár ("white castle"), is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city. It is the regional capital of Central Transdanubia, and the centre of Fejér ...

(1938), the glass windows of the inner city church of Pécs (1943), and of the Saint Michael Cathedral in

Veszprém Veszprém (; german: Weißbrunn, sl, Belomost) is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a city with county rights. It lies approximately north of the Lake Balaton. It is the administrative center of the county (comitatus or 'megye') of ...

(1954). Air raids during the Second World War caused serious damage to these works. Árkayné Sztehló participated in a number of national and foreign applied arts exhibitions, including

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in 1930, Rome in 1934, winning gold medals and the Grand Prix. In 1937 she exposed at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris. She exposed in 1940 at the Triennale di Milano a stained glass depicting Elizabeth of Hungary. She died in 1959.

Stained glass windows in the Galyatető Roman Catholic Church

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References

Sources

Biography of Lili Árkayné Sztehló on artportal
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