Sándor Bihari (19 May 1855,
Rézbánya – 28 March 1906,
Budapest
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) was a Hungarian
genre
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painter.
Life
Born to a
Jewish
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family, Sándor spent his childhood in
Nagyvárad. Originally, he worked with his father as a decorative painter. In 1874, he moved to Budapest, where he did
retouching at a photography studio while attending a drawing school operated by
Bertalan Székely.
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@ Művészet (from 1906) Two years later, he used his meager resources on a move to Vienna, where he hoped to enroll in the
Academy of Fine Arts. At first he had to find work as a retoucher again and might have remained in that position, had he not received a gift of 600
Forints from Székely, which enabled him to quit his job and enter the Academy.
He returned to his hometown, where he spent three years struggling as a portrait painter until a benefactor who liked his work provided the means for him to study in Paris. He travelled there in 1883, where he studied at the
Académie Julian
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with
Jean-Paul Laurens
Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.
Biography
Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexand ...
and improved his technique by copying the
at the
Louvre
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. While there, he became acquainted with
plein-air painting and
Impressionism
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, which had a decisive influence on his style. Upon returning to Hungary, he settled in
Szolnok, a popular gathering place for painters, and would later become one of the founders of an art colony there.
He continued to travel, making lengthy visits to Italy especially, until his health began to fail in 1893.
During his final years, he lived in Budapest but continued to spend his summers in Szolnok. In 1896, he was awarded the
Order of Franz Joseph.
Selected paintings
File:Sonntagnachmittag Sandor Bihari.jpg, Sunday Afternoon (1893)
File:Bihari Boating on the River Zagyva 1886.jpg, Boating on the Zagyva River (1886)
File:Bihari Sándor Bíró előtt.jpg, Before the Judge (1886),
his most familiar painting.
File:Bihari, Sandor - On the Porch (ca 1900).jpg, On the Porch (c. 1900)
References
External links
ArtNet: More works by Bihari@ the Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár.
''A Modell'' by Sándor Bihari @ Google Books
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1855 births
1906 deaths
Painters from Austria-Hungary
People from Nucet
Jewish Hungarian artists
Genre painters
19th-century Hungarian painters
Hungarian male painters
19th-century Hungarian male artists