Gyula Aggházy

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Gyula Aggházy (20 March, 1850 in Dombóvár – 23 May, 1919 in Budapest) was a Hungarian genre painter and art teacher.

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Biography He started his schooling in Dombóvár, Budapest. Gyula Aggházy's painterly ambitions were not received with great enthusiasm by his father, who definitely intended his son to be a musician. Therefore, after graduating from the conservatory, he signed a contract with the orchestra of the National Theater where he played violin. In parallel, he completed model drawing exercises as a student of Ferenc Újházy, and finally committed himself to painting. Between 1869 and 1874 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He studied in the painting department as a student of Carl Wurzinger, Karl von Blaas, Eduard von Engerth and Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger. He then trained for another three years at the Munich academy under the leadership of Sándor Wagner. He started working in Munich in 1873, and due to the success of his pictures sent home, he received a state scholarship until 1876. In 1874 due to a serious illness, he returned to Hungary and after a short stay in Szolnok (a popular gathering spot for painters), he travelled to Paris where he was a pupil of Mihály Munkácsy. From 1874, he appeared in exhibitions with pictures of folk life…Citește mai mult

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Main exhibitions He participated in the exhibitions of the Transylvanian Fine Arts Society (Cluj-Napoca, 1883, 1890, 1902, 1903) He is a permanent exhibitor and founding member of the National Salon, and has also participated in many rural exhibitions. Memorial exhibition. Art gallery. On the 3rd anniversary of his death. (with Ferenc Újházy and József Róna, Budapest, 1922) Memorial exhibition (Szolnok, 1952). In July 2000, Gyula Aggházy's painting in Tihany was included in the exhibition "Hungarian landscape, with a Hungarian brush" of the Bencés Abbey Museum. The exhibition was by Ferenc Mádl in the Mihály Munkácsy Museum in Békéscsaba on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the painter's death "Spiritual heirs of Munkácsy's art - students, followers". In 2000, an exhibition was organized in the Mihály Munkácsy Museum in Békéscsaba on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the painter's death, entitled "Spiritual heirs of Munkácsy's art - disciples, followers".