Sandor Nyilasy - Artist Info

About Sandor Nyilasy

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    Sándor Nyilasy (Hungarian: 1873-1934).

    Sandor Nyilasy was born in Szeged, on the date of 1873.12.02. Apart from the time of his studies in foreign countries and the two summers spent in Nagybánya, he lived and worked in Szeged. He died there in 1934.

    He was a student of Hollósy in Munich and Paris at the Julian Academy in 1894 and 1895. This is where János Thorma met him in the spring of 1897, and seeing his studies, invited him to Nagybánya. Nyilasy was a disciple of Hollósy at the beginning, then he began to plan and paint his first painting. It was exhibited with the title Bethlehem at the first exhibition of the Nagybánya School in Budapest. The vision of Bethlehem showed the in...

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