Simon Hollósy [SEP] country of citizenship
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."
Early life and education.
Simon Hollósy was born in 1857 in Máramarossziget, Hungary (today Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania). His parents were Armenians who had migrated to the area. He early expressed a talent and interest in art.
As a young man, he went to Munich to study, as did many artists from Hungary because there
Simon Hollósy
Simon Hollósy; (2 February 1857, Máramarossziget (now Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania) – 8 May 1918, Técső (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