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

"Where There's Smoke, There's Fire"
The Hungry Cadet
Courtship
Exciting story
In the Salon

References

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

Művészeti Lexikon, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 96145546 ULAN: 500067188

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