Károly Ferenczy

Károly Ferenczy ( born February 8, 1862 in Vienna, † March 18, 1917 in Budapest) was a Hungarian Impressionist painter.

Life

Károly ( rarely also Karl) Ferenczy first began studying law, then attended the business faculty of the University of Vienna and then turned finally on the advice of his cousin ( and future wife, Olga Fialka of ) the art. He enrolled in 1885 at the Art Academy Naples ( Accad. di Belle Arti ) a, however, moved the following year to Munich, where he came under the other with István Simon and Csók Hollósy in contact. He spent the years 1887 to 1889 at the Académie Julian in Paris. Jules Bastien -Lepage was his biggest influence and he created his first time images in the style of late French naturalism.

The following years Ferenczy joined an artists' colony of Szentendre to, but in 1893 went to Munich, and deepened its links with S. Hollósy and his friends. In 1896 it was decided together in Nagybánya ( Frauenbach ) settle and establishing an artists' colony and to open his own school. Ferenczy was one of the leading artists and teachers of the colony.

After a successful exhibition in Budapest in 1906 he became a professor at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and from then on he spent only the summer months in Nagybánya. In 1907 he was one of the founding members of the MIÉNK.

Works (selection)

"Bird Song " (1893 ) Oil on canvas, 108 cm × 77.5 cm, Hungarian National Gallery

"October" (1903), Oil on canvas, 125 cm × 107 cm, Hungarian National Gallery

" Rider " (1905 ) Charcoal on canvas, 37.5 cm × 37.5 cm, Hungarian National Gallery

" Beni Ferenczy " (1912 ) Oil on canvas, 73 cm × 59.5 cm, Hungarian National Gallery