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The Women of Eger Print by Bertalan Szekely

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Self-Portrait

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Discovery of the Body of King Louis the Second

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Women of Eger

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King László V and Ulrik Cillei

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Dancer

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Boating Lovers

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Boy with Bread and Butter

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Japanese Woman

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Coronation of Franz Josef I of Austria in the Matthias Church of Buda, Hungary, 1867

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Coronation of Franz Josef I of Austria in the Matthias Church of Buda, Hungary, 1867

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Contract Sealed with Blood

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Coronation of Andrew I of Hungary

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Saint Emeric of Hungary and his mother Gisela of Hungary.

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Study

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Leda

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Zrinyi's Charge from the Fortress of Szigetvár

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Vilmos Zsolnay

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Mrs. Keresztély

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Mihály Dobozi and his Wife

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Forest Landscape

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Village View

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Zrinyi's Charge from the Fortress of Szigetvár

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Thunder-storm (sketch)

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Escape of Imre Imre Thököly (Farewell of Imre Thököly)

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Brickburners

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Dancer (study)

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Young Woman with Her Hair Untied

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Women of Eger (sketch)

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Woman Stretching

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The Women of Eger Print by Bertalan Szekely

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Bertalan Székely (8 May 1835, Kolozsvár - 21 August 1910, Budapest) was a Hungarian history and portrait painter who worked in the Romantic and Academic styles.

Biography

Born into a family that was originally part of the Transylvanian nobility, his father was a court clerk. Although his family wanted him to become an engineer, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna from 1851 to 1855, under Johann Nepomuk Geiger and Carl Rahl.[1] He then returned to his hometown where, for the next three years, he worked as an art teacher. After a year of employment with Count Aichelberg, he married and moved to Munich, where he studied with Karl von Piloty. It was there that he first developed his interest in history painting. In 1862, he settled in Pest.

The following year, he won a contest with his painting "The Escape of Emperor Charles VII" and used the prize money to finance a trip to the Netherlands and Paris, returning in 1864.[1] He became one of the first teachers hired at the new "Hungarian Royal Drawing School" (now the Hungarian University of Fine Arts) in 1871 and served as its Director from 1902 to 1905, when he took over the master classes.[1]

From the 1860s through the 1880s, he mostly painted portraits and female figures, then turned to landscapes. He also created decorative murals in the Matthias Church, Budapest Opera House and the City Hall in Kecskemét.[1] Later, he became interested in the movement studies made by Edweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey and conducted some of his own.

Writings

Székely Bertalan válogatott művészeti írásai (selected writings on art), introduction by László Maksay, Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadóvállalata, Budapest, 1962

References

Brief biography @ the Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon.

Exhibition flyer, 4 April through 28 June 2009 @ the Művészetek Háza in Miskolc (includes a biographical time-line)

Further reading

Zsuzsanna Bakó, Székely Bertalan (1835–1910), Kep. Kiadó, Budapest 1982, ISBN 963-336-212-1
Székely Bertalan mozgástanulmányai (motion studies), edited by Annamária Szőke and László Beke, Budapest, 1992, ISBN 963-787-307-4 [1]
Éva Bicskei, Ámor és Hymen: A fiatal Székely Bertalan szerelmi történetei (Amor and Hymen: Love Stories of the Young Bertalan Székely), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2010 ISBN 978-963-05-8861-4 [2]

External links

Hungarian Art History: "Looking Down Into the Abyss: Bertalan Székely and the Perils of Love"
Bertalan Székely Remembered by Árpád Schauschek @ the Magyar Elektronikus Kõnyvtár

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