Tihamér Margitay

The native form of this personal name is Margitay Tihamér. This article uses the Western name order.
Self-portrait

Tihamér Margitay (1859 –1922) was a Hungarian painter. He was born in Jenke, Austria-Hungary, (today Jenkovice, Slovakia). He painted anecdotic, so-called "parlour pictures", in the style of Jules Bastien-Lepage.

Background

Margitay studied in Budapest as a student of Gyula Benczúr and in Munich with O.Seitz. He also studied in Venice and Florence. Margitay liked to paint scenes of the middle-class in the style of Bastien-Lepage with a naturalistic technique. His paintings have been exhibited several times in Budapest and also in Vienna. The Hungarian National Gallery are in possession of some of his paintings and his self portrait is on exhibition at the Hungarian Historical Gallery.[1]

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ "Tihamer Margitary 1859-1922". Budapest Auction.