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1867 Kaposvar, Hungary - 1939 Budapest, Hungary. Known for: Genre and figure painting, teaching.
János Miklós Vaszary was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was born into a prominent Catholic family, and his uncle was Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, the Archbishop of Esztergom. His art studies... Read full biography
János Miklós Vaszary was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was born into a prominent Catholic family, and his uncle was Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, the Archbishop of Esztergom. His art studies began at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts under János Greguss. In 1887, he went to Munich, where... Read full biography
János Miklós Vaszary was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was born into a prominent Catholic family, and his uncle was Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, the Archbishop of Esztergom. His art studies began at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts under János Greguss. In 1887, he went to Munich, where he studied with Gabriel von Hackl and Ludwig von Löfftz. After seeing an exhibition of paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage, he moved to Paris in 1899 and enrolled at the Académie Julian*. Although he... Read full biography
János Miklós Vaszary was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was born into a prominent Catholic family, and his uncle was Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, the Archbishop of Esztergom. His art studies began at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts under János Greguss. In 1887, he went to Munich, where he studied with Gabriel von Hackl and Ludwig von Löfftz. After seeing an exhibition of paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage, he moved to Paris in 1899 and enrolled at the Académie Julian*. Although he later became involved with Simon Hollósy and the artists' colony in Nagybánya and developed an interest in Hungarian folk art, his primary influences would always be French. In 1905 one of his paintings, The Sharecropper, was purchased by Emperor Franz... Read full biography
János Miklós Vaszary was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was born into a prominent Catholic family, and his uncle was Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, the Archbishop of Esztergom. His art studies began at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts under János Greguss. In 1887, he went to Munich, where he studied with Gabriel von Hackl and Ludwig von Löfftz. After seeing an exhibition of paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage, he moved to Paris in 1899 and enrolled at the Académie Julian*. Although he later became involved with Simon Hollósy and the artists' colony in Nagybánya and developed an interest in Hungarian folk art, his primary influences would always be French. In 1905 one of his paintings, The Sharecropper, was purchased by Emperor Franz Joseph. Janos was married later that year. During World War I, he served as a correspondent on the Serbian... Read full biography
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János Miklós Vaszary was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was born into a prominent Catholic family, and his uncle was Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, the Archbishop of Esztergom.
His art studies began at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts under János Greguss. In 1887, he went to Munich, where he studied with Gabriel von Hackl and Ludwig von Löfftz. After seeing an exhibition of paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage, he moved to Paris in 1899 and enrolled at the Académie Julian*.
Although he later became involved with Simon Hollósy and the artists' colony in Nagybánya and developed an interest in Hungarian folk art, his primary influences would always be French.
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