Count Tivadar Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka (10 July 1857 – 13 May 1905) was a Hungarian politician, Member of Parliament, painter, and art collector. He served as a member of the

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, the National Museum, the Metropolitan Board of Public Works, and the House of Representatives economics committee.

Biography

Andrássy was born in 1857 in Paris. His father was Gyula Count Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka (1823–1890), a Hungarian statesman, who served as

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(1867–1871) and

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(1871–1879). His mother was

Katinka Kendeffy Countess Katinka Kendeffy de Malomvíz Andrássy (1830 – 16 May 1896) was a Hungarian noblewoman and the wife of Count Gyula Andrássy, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary (1867–1871) and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary ...

(1830–1896). Andrássy had two younger siblings, a sister, Ilona (1858–1952), who married Lajos Batthyány, Governor of Flume, and a brother,

Gyula Andrássy the Younger Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka the Younger (; 30 June 1860 – 11 June 1929) was a Hungarian politician. Biography The second son of Count Gyula Andrássy and Countess Katinka Kendeffy, the younger Andrássy becam ...

(1860–1929), a politician. He was educated in Vienna and Budapest. In 1881, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tőketerebes district. He was President of the House of Representatives Committee on conflict of interest, but resigned circa 1897. An art collector, he was also a painter, mainly painting landscapes. In Trebišov, he financially supported the arts. Beginning in 1890, he served as president of the

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. In 1907, two years after his death, the Fine Arts Society exhibited 80 of his works.

Personal life

He married Countess Eleonóra Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeő on 24 June 1885; they had four daughters: * Ilona (1886–1967) * Borbála (1890–1968) * Katalin (1892–1985); wife of Count

Mihály Károlyi Count Mihály Ádám György Miklós Károlyi de Nagykároly (; ; or in short simple form: Michael Károlyi; 4 March 1875 – 19 March 1955) was a Hungarian politician who served as a leader of the short-lived and unrecognized First Hungarian Re ...

* Klára (1898–1941), Communist partisan

Death

Andrássy died in

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in 1905. Four years after her husband's death, his widow married her former brother in law, Gyula the Younger.

External links

* Iván Nagy: ''Magyarország családai czimerekkel és nemzedékrendi táblákkal. I-XIII.'' Bp., 1857–1868 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrassy, Tivadar 1857 births 1905 deaths Politicians from Budapest Artists from Budapest Tivadar Counts of Hungary Liberal Party (Hungary) politicians Members of the House of Representatives of Hungary (1887–1892) Painters from Austria-Hungary 19th-century Hungarian painters Children of prime ministers of Hungary Expatriates from Austria-Hungary in France Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungarian University of Fine Arts people