Lajos Ernst a publicat o actualizare
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Biography Lajos Ernst came from a wealthy Jewish family, the son of Mór merchant and Róza Steiner. He was 15 when he started collecting graphics, then other artwork. By 1894 he had lent a significant amount of paintings to exhibitions. In the same year he founded an exhibition. He had good contacts with the Hungarian painters. He recognized that the sketches were also valuable, so he collected them as well. In the following years he often arranged exhibitions. By 1894 he had founded of the National Salon, and from 1901 to 1909 he was its executive director. In this capacity, he organized several oeuvre exhibitions (Pál Szinyei Merse, Mihály Zichy, Viktor Madarász, János Vaszary). After being removed from his position, he founded the first private museum in Hungary. In 1912 he founded the first Hungarian private museum. From 1917 he held auctions. He had good relations with the artists (including Viktor Madarász, Bertalan Székely, Mór Than, Oszkár Glatz). The tomb of Lajos Ernst in Budapest. Israelite Cemetery on Kozma Street: 4-10-3. In May 1912, the Ernst Museum was opened in Budapest, at Nagymező u. Under 8, on the first floor of an apartment building built at the time. There were…