Tihamér_Margitay

Tihamér Margitay

Tihamér Margitay

Hungarian painter

The native form of this personal name is Margitay Tihamér. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Tihamér Margitay (1859–1922) was a Hungarian painter. He was born in Jenke, Austria-Hungary, (today Jenkovice, Slovakia). He painted anecdotic, so-called "parlour pictures", in the style of Jules Bastien-Lepage.

Self-portrait

Background

Margitay studied in Budapest as a student of Gyula Benczúr and in Munich with O.Seitz. He also studied in Venice and Florence. Margitay liked to paint scenes of the middle-class in the style of Bastien-Lepage with a naturalistic technique. His paintings have been exhibited several times in Budapest and also in Vienna. The Hungarian National Gallery are in possession of some of his paintings and his self-portrait is on exhibition at the Hungarian Historical Gallery.[1]

  • "Where There's Smoke, There's Fire"
  • The Hungry Cadet
  • Courtship
  • Exciting story
  • In the Salon

References

  1. [1]
    "Tihamer Margitary 1859-1922". Budapest Auction.
  • Művészeti Lexikon, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980


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