Munich in Hungarian. Hungarian Artists in Munich 1850–1914

<p>The exhibition illuminates a hitherto unexplored aspect of Hungarian painting in the second half of the 19th century. While it is common knowledge among art historians that in those days virtually every young Hungarian artist went to study in Munich in the absence of an art academy at home, the actual influence on artists of the Academy and of the city as an international centre of art remains largely unassessed. The exhibition will be an attempt to highlight distinctive features in the development of late 19th century art indisputably traceable to what Hungarian artists had learned at the Bavarian metropolis, playing a direct role in the emergence of the movement centred at Nagybánya (today Baia Mare, Romania) and, consequently, that of modern Hungarian painting.The Hungarian artists who went to study in Munich in the second half of the 19th century belonged to various generations.</p>