ZICHY, Mihály Falling Stars
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ZICHY, Mihály(1827, Zala - 1906, St. Petersburg)Painter,
ZICHY, Mihály(1827, Zala - 1906, St. Petersburg)Painter, graphic artist. He was a significant representative of Hungarian romantic painting. During his law studies in Pest from 1842, he attended Jakab Marastoni's school as well. In Vienna he was Waldmüller's pupil in 1844. "Life Boat", his first major work, comes from this time. On Waldmüller's recommendation, he became an art teacher in St. Petersburg. He swore allegiance to freedom by painting the portrait of Lajos Batthány, the first Hungarian prime minister, in 1849. From 1850 onwards, he worked as a retoucher, but he also did pencil drawings, water colours and portraits in oil. The series on the Gatsina hunting ordered by the Russian tsar raised him to a court artist. He founded a society to support painters in need. "Autodafé" on the horrors of Spanish inquisition was painted in 1868. He travelled around Europe in 1871, and settled down in Paris in 1874.
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Farkas
Painter. Farkas, who was a pupil of Károly Ferenczy at the Art School in
1908-09, went to Munich. He studied at the Académie de la Palette in Paris in
1912. He became a prisoner of war during World War I and returned to Hungary in
1919. From 1925 he lived in Paris for a longer time where his works were
exhibited in 1928-32. "Correspondences", a series of lithographs, were published
in Paris in 1928, for which A. Salmon wrote poems in prose.
After his father's death in 1932, he moved to Hungary and took over the Singer and Wolfner Company. From this time onwards, he was engaged in painting frescoes. He was a follower of French painting and a representative of the "École de Paris". Pictures of his late period on tragic situations of life reflected a morbid atmosphere. Besides well-proportioned landscapes, he portrayed outlaws of society ("The Read Bearded"). In his last period, he painted surrealistic visions
