Ferenc Hatvany

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Baron Ferenc Hatvany (1881, Budapest - 1958, Lausanne) was a member of the prominent Hungarian Hatvany-Deutsch family. He was a painter, a graduate of the Académie Julien in Paris and an art collector. His collection [1] included paintings from Tintoretto, Cézanne, Renoir, Ingres and Courbet, most notably L'Origine du monde and Femme nue couchée.

Towards the end of the Second World War his paintings were looted by Soviet troops but some were ransomed by Hatvany. In 1947 he emigrated to Paris.[1] In 1955 L’Origine du monde was sold at auction for 1.5 million francs.

Paintings that were looted from Hatvany's collection are still hanging on museum walls in Budapest, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod.

[edit] References

  • A short biography of Ferenc Hatvany
  • László Mravik. Hungary's Pillaged Art Heritage. Part Two: The Fate of the Hatvany Collection. Hungarian Quarterly vol. 39, no. 15, 1998. [2]. Accessed on February 7, 2007.
  • László Mravik. "Princes, Counts, Idlers and Bourgeois:" A Hundred Years of Hungarian Collecting, 3rd part. In T. Kieselbach (ed.) Studies in Modern Hungarian Painting 1892-1919. [3]. Accessed on February 7, 2007.
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