Gyula BenczÃºr

Gyula Benczúr [ ɟulɒ bɛntsu ː r] ( born January 28, 1844 in Nyíregyháza, † July 16, 1920 in dolany, today Szécsény ) was a Hungarian painter.

After initial studies in 1861 at Hermann Anschütz and Johann Georg Hiltensperger Benczúr studied 1865-1869 at Carl Theodor von Piloty. The first successes as a painter, he celebrated when he 1870 ( megkeresztelése Vajk ) the Hungarian national competition for historical pictures with the image of the Holy Baptism Stefan won.

He participated in Piloty frescoes for the Maximilianeum and the Town Hall in Munich and illustrated works by Friedrich Schiller. Also Bavaria King Ludwig II commissioned him to work.

At the Art Academy in Munich in 1876 he took a professorship. In Munich, he was a member of the society of artists Allotria. 1883 Benczúr returned to Hungary and became a professor at the "school of painting."

He painted portraits of kings and aristocrats and the monumental historical paintings. In addition, he painted altarpieces for the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Budapest and for the Hunyadi - hall of the Royal Palace of Buda. Furthermore, he often painted mythological themes. Among his pupils was, inter alia, Anna Berger painter Rudolf Köselitz, the younger brother of Nietzsche disciple Peter Guest.