List of Hungarian painters

This is an incomplete list of Hungarian painters. For sculptors see List of Hungarian sculptors

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Gyémánt László

A

• Béla Apáti Abkarovics - Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1888–1957)
• Béla Nagy Abodi - Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1918–2012)
• Mór Adler - Hungarian painter (1826–1902)
• Gyula Aggházy - Hungarian painter and teacher (1850–1919)
• Tivadar Alconiere - Austro-Hungarian painter (1797–1865)
• Friedrich von Amerling - Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (1803–1887)
• Margit Anna - Hungarian painter (1913–1991)
• István Árkossy - Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1943–)

B

• Ottó Baditz - Hungarian painter. He painted mostly genre pictures in an academic style (1849–1936)
• Endre Bálint - Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1914–1986)
• Rezső Bálint - Hungarian landscape painter (1885–1945)
• Pál Balkay - Hungarian painter and teacher (1785–1846)
• László Balogh - Hungarian painter
• Ernő Bánk - Hungarian teacher painter noted for his miniature portraits (1883–1962)
• Miklós Barabás - Hungarian painter noted for his portraits (1810–1898)
• Jenő Barcsay - Hungarian painter (1900–1988)
• Andor Basch - Hungarian painter (1885–1944)
• Gyula Basch - Hungarian painter (1859–1928)
• Gyula Batthyány
• Gyula Benczúr - Hungarian painter and pedagogue (1844–1920)
• Lajos Berán - Hungarian sculptor and artist noted for his medal work (1882–1943)
• Róbert Berény - Hungarian painter (1887–1953)
• Aurél Bernáth - Hungarian expressionist painter (1895–1982)
• László Beszédes - Hungarian sculptor, noted for his small bronze and terracotta statuettes (1874–1922)
• Sándor Bihari (1855–1906)
• Tamás Bimbó - Hungarian landscape painter (1968-)
• Zsolt Bodoni
• Pál Böhm (1839–1905)
• József Borsos - Hungarian portrait painter and photographer (1821–1883)
• Miklós Borsos - Hungarian sculptor (1906–1990)
• Sándor Bortnyik - Hungarian painter and graphic designer (1893–1976)
• Samu Börtsök (1881–1931)
• Gabor Breznay
• József Breznay
• Károly Brocky
• Sándor Brodszky
• Lajos Bruck

C

• István Csók - Hungarian Impressionist painter (1865–1961)
• Lajos Csontó - Hungarian painter
• Béla Czóbel - Hungarian painter (1883–1976)
• Tibor Czorba - painter (1906–1985)

D

• Adrienn Henczné Deák (1890–956)
• Valéria Dénes (1877–1915)
• Gyula Derkovits
• Balázs Diószegi - Hungarian painter primarily using the colour black (1914–1999)
• László Dombrovszky - Hungarian painter (1894–1982)
• János Donát - Hungarian painter (1744–1830)
• Géza Dósa - Hungarian painter (1846–1871)
• Orshi Drozdik - Hungarian feminist artist (1946–)

E

• József Egry - Hungarian modernist painter (1883–1951)

F

• Bogi Fabian - Hungarian painter who uses glow-in-the-dark techniques
• Adolf Fényes
• Árpád Feszty - Hungarian historical painter (1856–1914)
• Béni Ferenczy - Hungarian sculptor and graphic artist (1890–1967)
• Károly Ferenczy - Hungarian painter (1862–1917)
• Noémi Ferenczy - Hungarian tapestry designer and weaver (1890–1957)

G

• Tamás Galambos
• Ilka Gedő - Jewish Hungarian artist (1921–1985)
• Ernő Grünbaum - Jewish Hungarian painter (1908–1944/45)
• Lajos Gulácsy
• Jenő Gyárfás (1857–1925)
• Líviusz Gyulai - Hungarian graphic artist, printmaker, illustrator (1937–2021)

H

• Sam Havadtoy - neo-pop painter and interior designer (1952–)
• Simon Hantaï - influential painter using folding method (1922–2008)
• Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl - historical and mythological painting (1860–1933)
• Simon Hollósy - Hungarian painter of Armenian ancestry (1857-1918)
• Elmyr de Hory - Hungarian-born painter and Famous art forger (1906–1976)
• Istvan Horkay - Hungarian painter (1945–)

I

• Béla Iványi-Grünwald

J

• Gyula Jakoby (1903–1985)
• Viktor de Jeney
• Ferenc Joachim - Hungarian (Magyar) painter of portraits and landscapes (1882–1964)
• Zoltán Joó - Hungarian painter (1956–)

K

• Bertalan Karlovszky
• Lajos Kassák - Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, and father of many modernisms (1887–1967)
• Nándor Katona - painter (1864–1932)
• Isidor Kaufman - Hungarian painter of Jewish themes (1853–1921)
• Gusztáv Kelety - painter (1834–1902)
• Dóra Keresztes - Hungarian painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and animated film director (1953–)
• Károly Kernstok
• Károly Kisfaludy - Hungarian dramatist (1788–1830)
• Bálint Kiss
• Zoltán Klie
• Béla Kondor - Hungarian painter, prose writer, poet, photographer, and avant-garde graphic artist (1931–1972)
• Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch
• József Koszta
• Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka - Hungarian painter (1853–1919)

L

• Márta Lacza - Hungarian graphic artist and portrait painter (born 1946)
• Émile Lahner - Hungarian painter (1893–1980)
• Philip de László - Hungarian painter of portraits of royal and aristocratic personages (1869–1937)
• Sándor Liezen-Mayer
• Emil Lindenfeld - Hungarian-American oil-painter (1905–1986)
• Károly Lotz - German-Hungarian painter (1833–1904)

M

• Viktor Madarász - Hungarian romantic painter (1840–1917)
• Americo Makk - Hungarian ecclesiastical, historical portrait painter (1927–2015)
• Jack C. Mancino - Hungarian Abstract expressionist (1968–)
• Ádám Mányoki - Hungarian Baroque painter (1673–1757)
• Ödön Márffy - Hungarian painter (1878–1959)
• Károly Markó the Elder
• Zsuzsa Máthé - Hungarian painter, founder of Transrealism (1964–)
• Eszter Mattioni (1902–1993) - Hungarian painter
• László Mednyánszky - Hungarian painter in the Impressionist tradition (1852–1919)
• Attila Meszlenyi
• Géza Mészöly - Hungarian Romantic painter (1844–1887)
• László Moholy-Nagy - Hungarian painter, professor, and photographer (1895–1946)
• C. Pál Molnár (1894–1981)
• Master M. S. - painter who specialized in late Gothic art and in early Renaissance art
• Mihály Munkácsy - Hungarian painter of genre pictures and large scale biblical paintings (1844–1900)

N

• István Nagy - Hungarian painter (1873–1937)
• János Nagy Balogh - Hungarian painter (1874–1919)
• Vilmos Aba Novák - Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1894–1941)

O

• István Orosz - Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director (1951–)

P

• László Paál - Hungarian Realist landscape painter (1846–1879)
• Béla Pállik - painter and opera singer (1845-1908)
• Arthur Pan - portraitist noted for paintings of Sir Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts
• Károly Patkó - Hungarian painter and copper engraver, noted for his nude paintings in a plastic presentation (1895–1941)
• Vilma Parlaghy Lwoff - Hungarian painter of portraits of royal and aristocratic personages (1863-1923)
• Soma Orlai Petrich - Hungarian painter (1822–1880)
• Bertalan Pór - Hungarian painter (1880–1964)

R

• István Regős - Hungarian painter and designer (1954–)
• István Réti - Hungarian painter, professor, art historian and leading member, as well as a founder and theoretician, of the Nagybánya artists' colony (1872–1945)
• József Rippl-Rónai - Hungarian painter (1861–1927)
• Charles Roka - Hungarian painter of artistic kitsch (1912–1999)
• Tibor Rényi - contemporary Hungarian painter (1973–)
• György Rózsahegyi - contemporary Hungarian painter (1940–2010)

S

• István Sándorfi - Hungarian/French painter (1948–2007)
• Michael Aloysius Sarisky - figure, genre, and landscape Hungarian painter, who lived in Ohio, USA (1906–1974)
• János Saxon-Szász
• Hugo Scheiber
• Mihály Schéner - mid-20th century modernist artist (1923–2009)
• Schilling Oszkar Von Tordai
• Henriett Seth F. - Hungarian autistic savant poet, writer and artist (1980–)
• Oliver Sin - contemporary Hungarian painter, science art, math art (1985–)
• Bertalan Székely - Hungarian Romantic painter of historical themes (1835–1910)
• Adam Szentpétery - Hungarian Abstract painter (1956-)
• Pál von Szinyei-Merse - Hungarian painter and politician (1845–1920)
• István Szőnyi
• Lili Árkayné Sztehló - Hungarian painter and stained-glass decorator (1897–1959)

T

• Judy Takács - Hungarian-American figurative realist painter (1962–)
• Mór Than - Hungarian realistic, pre-impressionist style painter (1828–1899)
• Ernő Tibor - Jewish Hungarian painter (1885–1945)
• Lajos Tihanyi
• János Tornyai - Hungarian painter (1869–1936)
• Paul Takacs

U

• Géza Udvary - Hungarian Romantic and Symbolist painter (1872–1932)

V

• János Valentiny (1842–1902)
• György Vastagh (1834–1922)
• János Vaszary - Hungarian painter (1867–1938)
• Lajos Vajda - Hungarian avant-garde painter (1908–1941)
• Emil Vén

W

• Henrik Weber - Hungarian portrait and history painter (1818–1866)
• Félix Bódog Widder - Hungarian painter and graphic designer (1874–1939)

Z

• Mihály Zichy - Hungarian painter and graphic artist (1827–1906)

Notes

• Amerlich was Austro-Hungarian born in Vienna. Most of his artwork remains in Vienna but historically he is classified as of a dual nationality in the period he lived.

See also

• List of Hungarians
• List of painters

External links

• Fine Arts in Hungary from the beginning to the mid-20th century with pictures