Ãrpád Feszty
Árpád Szilveszter Feszty (born Rehren Beck, born December 24, 1856 in Ógyalla, † June 1, 1914 in Lovran ) from 1887 rare Árpád of Feszty, was a Hungarian painter and writer of realism.
Life
Family, Youth and studies
Árpád was on Christmas Eve of 1856 in the then small town of Upper Hungary Ógyalla ( Slo. Hurbanovo ) born in the county of Nitra. His birth name was Árpád Szilveszter Rehren Beck: his father, a wealthy landowner New Year Rehren Beck (1819-1910), was of German descent, but declined in the 1850s, for himself, his wife Jozefa (born Linzmayer ) and his children Magyarized name. Árpád had a total of 14 siblings, but only eight reached adulthood. His brothers were, inter alia, the architect Adolf Feszty (1846-1900) and Gyula Feszty ( 1854-1912 ). Árpád was of a keen sense and a "wandering imagination " inspired, and came repeatedly into conflict with his father. He initially received private lessons at home, then attended schools in Komárom and oven, and made with 18 years of high school at a high school in Bratislava.
In 1874 he began to study painting at the Art Academy in Munich, including Karl Kubinsky. He attended the Academy only irregular, but created a series of first landscape paintings and received exhibitions at the Kunstverein Munich. During a visit to two of his sisters in Budapest he made in 1877 some of his images and learned about Pál Gyulai the bishop and art lovers Arnold Ipolyi know, about whom he grants for a study trip to Venice ( 1877) and a study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna ( 1879-1881 ) received. One of the most influential for him teacher in Vienna was the painter Eduard von Lichtenfels, and now he painted landscapes in addition also increased religious imagery.
Homecoming and Marriage
On his return to Hungary he presented his work again, and went through his paintings " Golgotha " and " mine disaster " a name. After another trip to Italy ( 1884), he settled in Budapest. In 1885 he was commissioned to make landscape paintings on the ceiling of the auditorium of the Hungarian State Opera. This was followed by further orders for other public buildings, including an altarpiece by Joseph of Nazareth in the St. Stephen 's Basilica.
In the late 1870s the painter learns Feszty Roza Jókai ( 1861-1936 ), youngest daughter of actress Roza Laborfalvi and step-daughter of the poet Mór Jókai, whom he married in Fiume August 1888. Their daughter Masa Feszty (1895-1979) was also a painter. To Árpáds closest friends included, inter alia, the poet and the painter Justh of Zsigmond László Mednyánszky.
Literary Salon, the cyclorama
1890 acquired a plot of land near the Árpád Feszty Epreskert and had built a villa in the style of the Venetian Gothic Revival to July 1890. Rozas stepfather Mór was at that time a widower, and decided to move in with the young couple. He lived in the upper floor, while the Fesztys lived in the lower floor. Among the guests Fesztys included Ministers, politicians, numerous actors, writers and painters and the villa soon became the most important literary salon of Hungary and became a center of artistic and social life of Budapest. For the older generation Kálmán Tisza and Kálmán Mikszáth were regular guests. Masa Feszty described the mood in the villa as a " glowing, sparkling intellectual atmosphere ".
On a visit to Paris in 1891 Árpád Feszty saw a circular painting and was so enthusiastic about this form of representation, that he decided to create such a circular picture of the Flood. Mór Jókai and his wife saw the problems for the financing of such an undertaking, and Feszty finally adopted the proposal of his father, in anticipation of the 1000 anniversary of the Hungarian Conquest, the painting "river of Hungary " to the Carpathian Basin and at the Budapest Millennium exhibition issue 1896. Under the direction of Feszty painted from 1892 to 1894 at times up to 20 artists at the 120 meter long and 15 meter wide panorama Feszty to Pentecost Sunday, 1894 to present the work of art to the public. Some landscapes are to thank László Mednyánszky, the battle scenes Pál Vágó. Although the image was one of the biggest attractions of the millennium exhibition, however, revenues covered not spending on the image and Feszty had financial difficulties.
Crises, stay in Italy last year
The glamorous era of Villa ended with a social scandal. 1899 married the 74 -year-old Jókai surprisingly the then 20-year old actress Bella Nagy. Also, since the couple Feszty looked increasingly at the mercy of the public debate, they left the country in the same year.
The years 1899-1912 spent the Fesztys in Florence. Árpád recorded propagated and also began to write short stories. 1907 had to be sold due to high debts, the house. The villa was purchased by the Petőfi Literary Society, which she converted into a literary museum, the forerunner of today's Museum of Literature Petőfi. Today, the house is Feszty ( Feszty - ház ) of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1910 Feszty again his latest works in the National Salon, and returned in 1912 finally back to Budapest. The Fesztys now inhabited a small two -room apartment in the seventh district of Budapest Elizabeth City. After several months of serious illness Feszty died in 1914 at the age of 57 years in the seaside resort Lovran, District Volosca on the Austrian Riviera.
Work (selection)
The most important work Fesztys is named after him Feszty Panorama (1894 ), a nearly 1,800 -square-foot circular painting of the Conquest of the Magyars, which is on display in the National Historical Memorial Park Ópusztaszer today. Other of his pictures had mostly historical or religious themes to the content.
More of his paintings are in the Hungarian State Opera House, the Palace of Justice, in the Hungarian Parliament Building and St. Stephen's Basilica. Some of his works are now also in the possession of public museums: the National Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian Natural History Museum, the Museum of Hungarian culture and the Danube basin in Komárno and the Natural History Museum Vienna.
Calvary (detail ) Oil on canvas, 137 cm x 98.5 cm ( 1880)
Sketch, Pastel on paper, 90 cm × 70 cm
Haymaking, Oil on canvas, 141 cm × 116 cm
Mythological scene, Oil on canvas, 53 cm × 34 cm