Pál Szinyei Merse
1845–1920 · Impressionism
Biography
Pál Szinyei Merse (1845–1920) was a Hungarian painter who trained in Munich and developed a luminous, open-air style parallel to French Impressionism. He later became director of the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts.
From the artist’s life
Although Picnic in May did not bring Szinyei Merse the recognition he hoped for, he received gold medals at international exhibitions for several of his pictures. The aged master lived to see the greatest “honour” of his life when in 1914 the Szinyei Room was created in the Museum of Fine Arts. Shortly after his death his friends founded the Szinyei Merse Society, which was an influential organisation of Hungarian artistic life until the Second World War.
From the page of The Balloon
Paintings in this gallery (2)
Famous works elsewhere
- Lady in Violet 1874
- Lovers 1870
- Old Slovak Peasant 1884
- Faun/on the other side Lovers/ 1867
- Faun and Nymph 1868
- The Artist's Studio 1873