Simon Hollósy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Simon Hollósy

Hungarian artist

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1857

Place of Birth: Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș County

Date of Death: 08-May-1918

Profession: painter

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Simon Hollósy; (2 February 1857, Máramarossziget (now Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania) – 8 May 1918, Técso (now Tiachiv, Ukraine) was a Hungarian painter.
He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism. Hollósy was not highly productive as an artist and was more important as an influential teacher, who influenced the painters of the Nagybánya artists' colony.
Together, they were significant in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Hungarian art.
In 1966 the Hungarian National Gallery had a major exhibition of the colony's work: The Art of Nagybánya.
Centennial Exhibition in Celebration of the Artists' Colony in Nagybánya.



Alternative names	Simon Hollosy
Description	Armenian-Hungarian painter
Date of birth/death	2 February 1857	8 May 1918
Location of birth/death	Máramarissziget	Técso
Work location	München, Nagybánya, Técso
Authority control	: Q165756 VIAF: 15910542 ISNI: 0000 0000 7873 0434 ULAN: 500030515 LCCN: nb2008019303 WGA: HOLLÓSY, Simon WorldCat