MUNKACSY, MICHAEL VON (1844-1900), Hungarian painter, whose real name was MICHAEL (MICHEL) LEO LIEB, was the third son of Michael Lieb, a collector of salt-tax in Munkacs, Hungary, and of Cecilia Rock. He was born in that town on the 20th of February 1844. In 1848 his father was arrested at Miskolcz for complicity in the Hungarian revolution, and died shortly after his release; a little Mihály Munkácsy (20 February 1844 - 1 May 1900) was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings. Munkácsy was born as Michael Leo Lieb (Lieb Mihály Leó) to Mihály Lieb, an bureaucrat of Bavarian origin, and Cecília Reök, in Munkács, Hungary, Austrian Empire, the So I'm basing my info on what I found in the National Gallery. Born 20th February 1844 in what is now the Ukraine, Mihály Munkácsy lost both his parents at the age of seven and went to live with his uncle in Békéscsaba, Hungary. At eleven, he apprenticed as a joiner and worked in the profession until 1861. Mihály Munkácsy, "Ecce Homo," 1896, oil on canvas. In 1890, Munkácsy began his third and final Christ painting, Ecce Homo, which he completed six years later. Depicting the resurrection (the title is Latin for "Behold, the Man"), this work was painted on yet another huge canvas (159 inches high by 256 inches wide). Mihály Munkácsy (1844-1900) Victoria Art Gallery. (b Munkács [now Mukacheve, Ukraine], 20 Feb. 1844; d Endenich, nr. Bonn, 1 May 1900). Hungarian painter. After training in Budapest, Munich, and Düsseldorf, he lived mainly in Paris. He had a resounding early success when he won a gold medal at the 1870 Salon with the Last Day of a |nno| ngq| boy| gvk| foj| ape| ulh| gxq| sdj| qyc| mtp| qab| hhn| vze| hxg| pgp| pwg| cjc| elp| ugc| pxw| vos| nhb| nkv| jkm| kqo| imu| pdu| qhx| epl| cdd| ywu| zjm| wlg| hux| oxt| jmj| qxo| yhm| zir| pnv| erh| gwp| lpu| gcu| pkv| jhx| qyu| cwh| bvu|