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 Bertalan Székely (8 May 1835, Kolozsvár, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) – 21 August 1910, Budapest, Transleithania, Austria-Hungary) was a Hungarian history and portrait painter who worked in the Romantic ...

. He continued his studies at the

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. In the second half of the 19th centur ...

with Alexander von Wagner,

Gabriel von Max Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (23 August 1840 – 24 November 1915) was a Prague-born Austrian painter, and professor of history painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was also a collector of anthropological artifacts. Biography He ...

and

Wilhelm von Diez Albrecht Christoph Wilhelm von Diez (17 January 1839 – 25 February 1907) was a German painter and illustrator of the Munich School. Life He was born in Bayreuth. He attended a trade school in Munich, followed by the Polytechnic School (precur ...

.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 Ladislaus V, swearing an oath not to retaliate against

László Hunyadi László Hunyadi or Ladislaus Hunyadi ( Slovak: ''Ladislav Huňady''; 1431Bánhegyi 2008, p. 17. – 16 March 1457) was a Hungarian nobleman. Ladislaus Hunyadi was the elder of the two sons of John Hunyadi, voivode of Transylvania and later reg ...

.Brief biography
@ 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 '' The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Word and Picture'', 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 János Arany (; archaic English: John Arany; 2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 102 ballads that have been transl ...

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 ''Nyugat'' (, ''West''; pronounced similar to ''New-Got''), was an important Hungarian literary journal in the first half of the 20th century. Writers and poets from that era are referred to as "1st/2nd/3rd generation of the NYUGAT". History an ...

'', 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 19th-century Hungarian illustrators 19th-century Hungarian painters 20th-century Hungarian painters 20th-century Hungarian illustrators 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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