Famous Artists from Hungary

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List of the most popular artists from Hungary, listed alphabetically with photos when available. For centuries artists have been among the world's most important people, helping chronicle history and keep us entertained with one of the earliest forms of entertainment. Whether they're known for painting, sculpting, etching or drawing, the famous Hungarian artists on this list have kept that tradition alive by creating renowned pieces of art that have been praised around the world. You can find useful information below about these notable Hungarian artists, such as when they were born and where their place of birth was.

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  • Victor Vasarely

    Victor Vasarely

    Folklore planetaire, Granat, Hommage ร  l'Hexagone
    • Birthplace: Pรฉcs, Hungary
    • Associated periods or movements: Hard-edge painting, Op art
    • Nationality: France, Hungary
    • Art Forms: Painting
    Victor Vasarely (French: [viktษ”ส vazaสษ™li]; born Gyล‘zล‘ Vรกsรกrhelyi, Hungarian: [หˆvaหสƒaหrhษ›ji หˆษŸรธหzรธห]; ( 1906-04-09)9 April 1906 โ€“ ( 1997-03-15)15 March 1997), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the op art movement. His work entitled Zebra, created in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of op art.
  • Jรกnos Mattis-Teutsch

    Jรกnos Mattis-Teutsch

    Jรกnos Mattis-Teutsch or Mรกttis-Teutsch, Mรกtis-Teutsch (IPA: [หˆjaหnoสƒ หˆmษ’tหiสƒ หˆtสฐษ”สฬฏtอกสƒ]; the most common Hungarian-language versions of his name, all of which have also been spelled without the hyphen; his first name has been rendered as Hans or Johannes in German and Ioan in Romanian; 13 August 1884โ€“17 March 1960) was a Hungarian painter, sculptor, graphic artist, art critic, and poet. Best known for his Seelenblumen ("Soulflowers") cycle of paintings, he was an important contributor to the development of modern art and avant-garde trends inside Romania (where he spent the larger part of his life). He was the grandfather of the artist Waldemar Mattis-Teutsch.
  • Stefan Jรคger

    Stefan Jรคger

    Stefan Jรคger (May 28, 1877 in Tschene/Torontรกl โ€“ March 16, 1962 in Jimbolia/Hatzfeld, Romanian Banat) 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 Hungarian painter - since in the first half of his life he lived in what was part of Hungary, and some of his early career was spent in Budapest under the influence of Hungarian painters; a Romanian painter - since in the second half of his life his home region was part of Romania, and his contribution to Romanian culture was recognised by the government through awards in his lifetime and the maintenance of his home as museum up to the present; and a German painter - since, though he never lived in Germany, his identity as an ethnic German played a central part in his life and his artistic work.
  • Master MS
    Master M. S. (Hungarian: M. S. Mester, German: Meister M. S., Slovak: Majster M. S.) was a 16th-century painter in Central Europe in late Gothic and early Renaissance art. He was active in Banskรก ล tiavnica (to 1918 Selmecbรกnya in the Kingdom of Hungary, since 1993 in Slovakia) and probably led a workshop there. Since his true name is unknown, he is sometimes identified with various other Gothic "masters". German art historians generally identify him with J. Brieu, a painter from Augsburg. Also some art historians identify him with the engraver Master MZ, often identified as Matthรคus Zaisinger (1498โ€“1555), a German goldsmith from Munich. According to other research the master could have been a Hungarian painter called Sebestyรฉn, whose name is mentioned in the charter of Banskรก ล tiavnica in 1507. The art historian Miklรณs Mojzer noted the similarities between this work and that of the painter who accompanied Veit Stoss and made the passion paintings in an altar now in the Esztergom Christian Museum and he called him Marten Swarcz. His art combining dramatic depth and colourful decorative formation is akin to that of the German painters Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dรผrer, J. Brieu and mainly Mathias Grรผnewald. Only seven of his panel paintings are known out of eight which used to decorate the high altar of a church in Banskรก ล tiavnica. It was believed that the altar was in the Saint Catherine Church, but according to the new research the pictures were part of the altar in the Virgin Mary Church, later rebuilt into the fortress called the Old Castle. Now there are four Passion paintings in Esztergom,Hungary, in the Christian Museum; the painting "The Birth of Christ" is held in Svรคtรฝ Anton (formerly known also as Hontszentantal) near Banskรก ล tiavnica, and The Adoration of the Magi is in the Museum of Lille in France. His painting entitled "The Visitation" depicts the meeting of the two saints, the Virgin Mary and St. Elizabeth, is in Budapest, in the Hungarian National Gallery. There are also three more-than-life-size wood-carved polychromed sculptures preserved which originally belong to the same altar. The statue of Madonna is in the Saint Catherine Church of Banskรก ล tiavnica, the statues of Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara are in the art gallery of the Slovak Mining Museum in Banskรก ล tiavnica. At the Old Castle in Banskรก ล tiavnica, a half-sized maquette of the altar is exhibited, featuring full-coloured photocopies of all the known panel paintings by Master MS, as well as fragments of decorative wood carvings which presumably were parts of the altar.
  • Simon Hantaรฏ
    Simon Hantaรฏ (7 December 1922, Biatorbรกgy, Hungary โ€“ Paris, 12 September 2008; took French nationality in 1966) is a painter generally associated with abstract art.
  • Constantin Daniel Rosenthal
    Constantin Daniel Rosenthal (b. Pest, Austrian Empire: Rosenthal Konstantin, 1820 โ€“ July 23, 1851) 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 subjects.