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Factory on the Outskirts of Budapest Gusztáv Magyar-Mannheimer

Artist

Gusztáv Magyar-Mannheimer Pest [Budapest], 1859 – Budapest, 1937

Date 1893
Object type painting
Medium, technique oil, canvas
Dimensions

image: 86 × 131 cm
frame: 119 × 164 × 10.5 cm

Inventory number 1507
Collection Collection of Paintings
On view Hungarian National Gallery Building C, First Floor, Art in the 19th Century – From the Age of Reforms to the Turn of the Century, U Wing

The painter, who won many prizes in his age but whose fame has slightly dimmed by now, had a restless nature that drove him to try out several styles. As a real colourist, he usually started out from colour and arrived at surprisingly light-handed, airy solutions. At the same time, he was also characterised by a dampened colour scheme saturated with emotions, verging on romanticism. This landscape rises high above his average works: such expressive depiction of poor outskirts was to come only far later in Hungarian painting, in the work of István Dési Huber and his fellows. The broad panorama with Váci Road and the Ördög (Devil) Mill includes the puffing engine of the circular railway on the left, and shanties in front of the faraway mills and factory plants with a man and child standing on the road. A remote echo of the social interest of European painting spreading at that time can be felt in the painting, however, the artist did not immerse into the implications but offered the pleasure of pure visuality. The riot of fantastic sunset colours and the transfiguration of the prosaic environment were the artistic problems that the painter aimed to solve in this work. | Anna Szinyei Merse

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