Karoly Ferenczy
Born: Vienna, 8 February 1862
Died: Budapest, 18 March 1917
Nationality: Hungarian
Died: Budapest, 18 March 1917
Nationality: Hungarian
Background:
middle class family
Studies:
Accademia di Belle Arti (Naples); with Tony Robert-Fleury and Adolphe-William Bouguereau at Académie Julian (Paris)
Career:
1893 – moves to Munich
1896 – moves to Nagybánya; forms artists' colony with Simon Hollósy and others
1902 – Hollósy leaves Nagybánya, Ferenczy become the leader of the group
1903 – retrospective exhibition at the National Salon in Budapest
1906 – begins teaching at Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest
Travels
Italy (1885); Munich (1887); Paris (1887-89)
Important Artworks:
Archaeology, 1895 (Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest)
Three Magi, 1899 (Hungarian National Gallery)
Joseph Sold by his Brothers, 1900 (Hungarian National Gallery)
Bathing Boys, 1902 (Hungarian National Gallery)
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