Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry

Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary [ tivɒdɒr kostkɒ ʧontva ː ri ] ( born July 5, 1853 in Kisszeben (now Sabinov, Slovakia), † June 20, 1919 in Budapest, real name Mihály Tivadar Kosztka, artist name Csontvary ) was a Hungarian painter, figurative paintings in an expressive color painted.

Life

Pharmacist by trade, he followed an inner inspiration, was a painter and traveled to countries such as Palestine, Lebanon, Sicily, Greece, Bosnia and Egypt, from where he brought back a large number of impressions that he worked for his paintings, especially landscapes, artistic. He is not really a naive painter, as he developed, despite its echoes of naive painting in expression and composition to high mastery. Some of his images have sizes of up to 4 times 7 meters.

His first oil paintings date from 1894. Csontvary With advancing age, suffered from latent schizophrenia. Many painters who gained his knowledge of art, including Picasso, paid him great recognition.

On 15 December 2006 the most expensive painting at the time of Csontvary was sold in an auction of the Budapest Gallery pebble creek to an unknown buyer for more than one million euros. The oil painting dates from 1902 and has the title "The meeting of the beloved " ( " Randevú ").

A large number of Csontvárys images can be seen in Pécs, which has a Csontvary Museum.

Works

• Springtime in Mostar, 1903 ( Pécs )
• Ruins of the Greek Theatre in Taormina ( 1904-05 ) ( Budapest)
• The Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, 1905 ( Pécs )
• Baalbek, 1906 ( Pécs )
• Pilgrimage to the Cedars of Lebanon, 1907 (Budapest)