Gyula Batthyany - Artist Info

About Gyula Batthyany

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Graf Gyula Batthany
  • Biography

    Gyula Batthyány (Ikervár, 10 May 1887 – Budapest, 20 January 1959) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist whose works are in the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery as well as other museums around the world.

    His father is Count Lajos Batthyány, governor of Fiume, member of parliament, and his mother is Count Ilona Andrássy. He is the great-grandson of Count Lajos Batthyány, the first Hungarian Prime Minister.

    In 1890, when he was barely three years old, he made his first drawing. He began his education at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts studying under János Vaszary, later going to Munich in 1907 to work with Angelo Jank. He studied at The Académie Julian in Paris from 1910 to 1913 where he became friends with L...

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