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Benczúr, Gyula
1844 - 1920

One of the important Hungarian masters of historifying academism. He prepared for the Academy of Munich in a private school in Kassa , where he undertook studies in 1861-1862 and between 1865 and 1869. He shared a studio Páll Szinyei Merse beginning in 1861 for four years. He went to Paris twice between 1869 and 1876, on an assignment Ludwig II of Bavaria. He was appointed a teacher of the Munich Academy in 1876. Upon hi return to Budapest in 1883, he took up leadership of the painter's Master-school. The Academy of Vienna elected him a honorary member in 1888, and he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1910.

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Auctions

37. Sale 23/05/2008 17:00
	162. Louis the XVIth and his family at the siege of Versailles, 1872 Starting price: 3.200.000 Ft
36. Sale - 14/12/2007 17:00
34. Sale - 11/05/2007 17:00
31. Sale - 19/05/2006 17:00
25. Sale - 28/04/2004 17:00
23. Sale - 04/10/2003 17:00
20. Sale - 06/12/2002 17:00
18. Sale - 19/04/2002 17:00
16. Sale - 12/10/2001 17:00
10. Sale - 11/12/1999 17:00
9. Sale - 10/12/1999 17:00
7. Sale - 19/03/1999 17:00
1. Sale - 19/09/1997 17:00

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