#Simon Hollosy

[ultimateinferno]

So I've been doing some art research before doing a portrait of one of my OCs because she comes from very Prim and Proper Victorian Nobility and wanted to really study those kinds of paintings from the era which... there's a shit ton of etsy ad facsimiles out there that really corrupt the pool of references, but Wikimedia has a collection of portraits that are actually from the Era and let me tell you, a lot are just great

I Know'd It Was Ripe by Thomas Hovenden

This kid's smile is just infectious.

Girl from Megara by Georgios Iakovidis

She's not having it!

Portrait of a Woman by Simon Hollosy

The warmth in her eyes. I trust her implicitly.

Laughing Girl by Fritz von Udhe

I think this one is my favorite. The warm lighting. The pose. Her smile. I might genuinely try to do a full study on this.

A lot of these weren't the particular style I was going for (the uptight noble portrait) but they do very much provide a window for me into this era that created the one I am making.

[the-paintrist]

Simon Hollósy (1857–1918) - Self-portrait - 1916

Simon Hollósy; (2 February 1857, Máramarossziget, now Sighetu Marmaţiei – 8 May 1918, Técső, now Tiachiv, now Ukraine) was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism. Hollósy was not highly productive as an artist and was more important as an influential teacher, who influenced the painters of the Nagybanya artists' colony. Together, they were significant in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Hungarian art. In 1966 the Hungarian National Gallery had a major exhibition of the colony's work: The Art of Nagybánya. Centennial Exhibition in Celebration of the Artists' Colony in Nagybánya.

Simon Hollósy was born in 1857 in Máramarossziget, Hungary (present-day Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania). His parents were Armenians who had migrated to the area. He early expressed a talent and interest in art. As a young man, he went to Munich to study, as did many artists from Hungary because there was no academy of fine arts there. Hollósy criticized the training at the Munich Academy, which was strongly based on copying classical models. He founded a private school where he gave free classes, attracting young talents who were interested in realistic portrayal. He opened the way to new styles by relying on his personality and by pointing out the merits of French painters, such as Gustave Courbet, who exhibited in the city. He abandoned the academic style in order to follow new trends in French painting, including Impressionism. He also "admired Jules Breton, Jules Bastien-Lepage and read Zola, Murger, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky." He was more important as a teacher than a painter. His large-scale plan of Rákóczi March, never progressed much beyond sketches, as he kept changing his mind. His landscapes painted in Técső include Landscape in Técső, Landscape with Stacks and Sunset with Stacks, in which he applied elements of en plein air and Impressionism. His self-portrait (1916), held by the Hungarian National Gallery, is considered one of his most harrowing pictures. Encouraged by István Réti and János Thorma, his pupils and friends, Hollósy spent the summer of 1896 in Nagybánya (present-day Baia Mare, Romania) with his school. That is considered the founding of the Nagybánya artists' colony, of which the painter Károly Ferenczy was another important early member. The more rural location provided many chances for painting outdoors. These artists and their followers played an important role in introducing impressionism and post-impressionism to Hungarian painting. Hollósy soon settled down in Nagybánya. With its naturalistic style and emphasis on plein air techniques, his school determined much of Hungarian painting for decades. Hollósy left the Nagybánya colony in 1901. The following year, he began to spend the summers in Técső with those students who followed him. (It is now known as Tiachiv, Ukraine.) During the winters, Hollósy returned to Munich to run his school there.

[art-centric]

Simon Hollosy “ Girl with a Large Green Hat” Hungarian

[durruti23]

Simon Hollósy - Self-Portrait (1916)

http://www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/h/hollosy/index.html

[a-bright-flurry]

Simon Hollosy

[agrarianrhythm-blog]

Corn Husking by Simon Hollosy, 1885

[the-paintrist]

Simon Hollósy (1857–1918) - Zrínyi's Charge on the Turks from the Fortress of Szigetvár - 1896

The Zrinski family (Hungarian: Zrínyi ) was a Croatian-Hungarian noble family, influential during the period in history marked by the Ottoman wars in Europe in the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia and in the later Austro-Hungarian Empire. Notable members of this family were Bans (viceroys) of Croatia, considered national heroes in both Croatia and Hungary, and were particularly celebrated during the period of romanticism; this movement was called Zrinijada in Croatian.

Simon Hollósy; (2 February 1857, Máramarossziget, now Sighetu Marmaţiei – 8 May 1918, Técső, now Tiachiv, now Ukraine) was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism. Hollósy was not highly productive as an artist and was more important as an influential teacher, who influenced the painters of the Nagybanya artists' colony. Together, they were significant in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Hungarian art. In 1966 the Hungarian National Gallery had a major exhibition of the colony's work: The Art of Nagybánya. Centennial Exhibition in Celebration of the Artists' Colony in Nagybánya.

[the-paintrist]

Hollósy, Simon - Haystacks II - 1912

Simon Hollósy; (2 February 1857, Máramarossziget, now Sighetu Marmaţiei – 8 May 1918, Técső, now Tiachiv, now Ukraine) was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism.

[the-paintrist]

Hollósy, Simon - Springtime Mood (Bank of the River Tisza), 1916

Simon Hollósy; (2 February 1857, Máramarossziget, now Sighetu Marmaţiei – 8 May 1918, Técső, now Tiachiv, now Ukraine) was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism.

[the-paintrist]

Hollósy, Simon - After the Harvest - 1908

Simon Hollósy; (2 February 1857, Máramarossziget, now Sighetu Marmaţiei – 8 May 1918, Técső, now Tiachiv, now Ukraine) was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism.

[durruti23]

Simon Hollósy - The Rakoczi March (sketch) (1899)

http://www.mng.hu/en/search/198