Artists Famous Artists from Hungary

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Victor Vasarely Folklore planetaire, Granat, Hommage à l'Hexagone Victor Vasarely, was a Hungarian–French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the short-lived op art movement. His work entitled Zebra, created in the 1930s, ...more

János Mattis-Teutsch János Mattis-Teutsch or Máttis-Teutsch, Mátis-Teutsch was a Hungarian and Romanian painter, sculptor, graphic artist, art critic, and poet. Best known for his Seelenblumen ...more

Stefan Jäger Stefan Jäger was a painter known for his depiction of and deep identification with the Danube Swabian community to which he belonged. There are some grounds for categorising him as a ...more

Master MS Master M. S. was a 16th-century painter who specialized in late Gothic art and in early Renaissance art. He was active in Banská Štiavnica and probably led a workshop there. Since his ...more

Simon Hantaï Simon Hantaï is a painter generally associated with abstract art.

Constantin Daniel Rosenthal Constantin Daniel Rosenthal was a Romanian painter and sculptor of Austrian-Jewish birth and a 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist ...more

Sándor Ziffer Sándor Ziffer was a Hungarian painter characterized by his strong decorative paintings and use of definite contours and colour in his works. Ziffer studied at the School of Design, and he ...more

Baroness Emma Orczy Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci was a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright and artist of noble origin. She is ...more

László Moholy-Nagy Helsinki, Puppen (In der Mittagssonne) (Dolls [In the Midday Sun]), Q 1 Suprematistic László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the ...more

Marcel Breuer Wassily Chair, Cesca Chair, Model B 64 Marcel Lajos Breuer, was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer extended the sculptural vocabulary he had developed in the ...more

Károly Lotz Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz was a German-Hungarian painter.

Robert Capa The Falling Soldier, Trotsky in Copenhagen, Spanish Civil War Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer, photojournalist and also the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taró. He covered five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the ...more

Philip de László Philip Alexius de László, MVO was a Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages. In 1900, he married Lucy Guinness of Stillorgan, ...more

Paul Hartal Paul Hartal is a Canadian painter and poet, born in Szeged, Hungary. He has created the term "Lyrical Conceptualism" to characterize his style in both painting and poetry, and has ...more

Péter Forgács Péter Forgács is a film director and screenwriter.

Mihály Munkácsy Glorification of the Renaissance, Storm in the Puszta, Midnight Ramblers Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter, who lived in Paris and earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large scale biblical paintings.

Albert Schickedanz Albert Schickedanz was an Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style. Schickedanz was born in Biala, Galicia, to an ethnic German family. He studied at his home town and at ...more

André François André François, born André Farkas, was a Hungarian-born French cartoonist.

Cornell Capa Cornell Capa was a Hungarian American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, and photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa. Graduating from Imre ...more

József Rippl-Rónai Self-Portrait with Red Beret, My Parents after Forty Years of Marriage József Rippl-Rónai was a Hungarian painter. He first introduced modern artistic movements in the Hungarian art.

Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry Springtime in Mostar, Balbeck, Ruins of Greek Theatre at Taormina Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry was a Hungarian painter who was part of the avant-garde movement of the early twentieth century. Working mostly in Budapest, he was one of the first Hungarian ...more

Maurice Ascalon Maurice Ascalon was an Israeli designer and sculptor. He was, by some accounts, considered the father of the modern Israeli decorative arts movement. Maurice Ascalon was born as Moshe Klein in ...more

Béla Iványi-Grünwald Béla Iványi-Grünwald was a Hungarian painter, a leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony and founder of the Kecskemét artists' colony.

Sylvia Plachy Sylvia Plachy is a Hungarian/American photographer. Plachy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her Hungarian Jewish mother was in hiding in fear of Nazi persecution during World War II. Her father ...more

Líviusz Gyulai Líviusz Gyulai is a Hungarian graphic artist, printmaker, illustrator.

Vilmos Huszár Vilmos Huszár was a Hungarian painter and designer. He lived in The Netherlands, where he was one of the founder members of the art movement De Stijl. Vilmos was born in Budapest, ...more

István Orosz István Orosz is a Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director. He is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, ...more

Demeter Laccataris Demeter Laccataris was an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin. Born in Vienna, he studied at Debrecen and Vienna. He was based at Pest from around 1835 and painted portraits and ...more

Tibor Kalman Colors Magazine Issue 4 Tibor Kalman was an American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well known for his work as editor-in-chief of Colors magazine. Kalman was born in Budapest and became a U.S. resident in 1956, ...more

Simon Hollósy Simon Hollósy; was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism. Hollósy was not highly productive as ...more

Basil Rakoczi Basil Ivan Rákóczi was an artist born in London. He was a prominent and leading member of the Irish art group, the White Stag, along with Kenneth Hall.

Gyula Benczúr Gyula Benczúr was a Hungarian painter and pedagogue.

György Kepes Hungarian Past, The City György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. In 1967 He founded the ...more

Rita Ackermann The One Who Attacked Lost at the End, Do's and Dont's Nurses (United), With No Roots Behind Them III Rita Ackermann is a Hungarian-American artist. She is currently living and working in New York City

Elmyr de Hory Regatta, Gentleman and Young Girl Overlooking the Ocean, L'aqueduc Elmyr de Hory was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger who is said to have sold over a thousand forgeries to reputable art galleries all over the world. His forgeries garnered much celebrity ...more

Ignaz Wechselmann Ignaz Wechselmann was a Hungarian architect and philanthropist. Educated in Berlin, Wechselmann moved to Vienna where he became the friend and assistant of the architect Ludwig Förster. In ...more

Joseph Kossonogi Joseph Kossonogi was a Hungarian-born Israeli painter.

Dóra Keresztes Dóra Keresztes Hungarian painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and animated film director.

Endre Szász Férfi portré, Too long. Surrealistisches Porträt eines Mannes mit Uhrenmütze, Az öreg fa Endre Szász was a Hungarian graphic artist, printmaker, illustrator, muralist and ceramics decorator. He described himself as a Folk Surrealist.

Paul László McCullough Chainsaw Factory Chair Paul László or Paul Laszlo was a Hungarian-born modern architect and interior designer whose work spanned eight decades and many countries. László built his ...more

Benjamin Block Benjamin Block, or Blok was a seventeenth-century German - Hungarian Baroque painter who married the flower painter Anna Katharina Block. He is known for his portrait paintings.

Jenő Barcsay Jenő Barcsay was a Hungarian painter. Born in Katona, Hungary in 1900, Barcsay was a descendant of an aristocratic family from Transylvania. In 1919, he went to Budapest where he began his ...more

Angelo Heilprin Angelo Heilprin was an American geologist, paleontologist, naturalist, and explorer. He is mostly known for the part he took into the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892 and for his ...more

Isidor Kaufmann Isidor Kaufmann was an Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to genre painting, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe in search of scenes of Jewish, often Hasidic

László Mednyánszky Baron László Mednyánszky or Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky, the painter-philosopher, is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of ...more

Csaba Markus Csaba Markus is a Hungarian born American artist, painter, sculptor and publisher. As an artist, he primarily works in the field of printmaking, with a particular focus on etching and ...more

Hugo Scheiber Portrait of a Man with a Pipe, Woman at the Bar, Interior Hugó Scheiber was a Hungarian modernist painter.

János Tornyai János Tornyai was a renowned Hungarian painter born in Hódmezővásárhely.

János Vaszary János Miklós Vaszary was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.

Oskar Kaufmann Oskar Kaufmann was a Hungarian-Jewish architect. He was an expert in construction and design and was active in Berlin beginning in 1900. Among his best-known works are the Krolloper, the Hebbel ...more