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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableIn 2020, the National Bank of Hungary issued a 1000 forint coin in pure silver. It was issued to honor and commemorate Pál Szinyei Merse on the occasion of his 175th birthday. But who was this Pál Szinyei Merse, whose likeness adorns one side of the valuable coin? As a painter, he is regarded as a leading protagonist of Hungarian modernism. His motifs are on the borderline between realism and early impressionism. In addition, Merse was committed to promoting young artistic talent. Chminianska Nová Ves is the name of a small village in eastern Slovakia, which used to have the place name Szinyeújfalu and whose most famous son Pál Szinyei Merse was born here in 1845. The son of a noble family with the German name Paul Merse von Szinyei began studying art in Munich at the age of 19 with the history and animal painter Sándor Wagner and Carl Theodor von Piloty, who is considered the leading protagonist of realistic history painting.
During his studies, the young Merse von Szinyei was accepted into various artistic circles. Thus, among others, friendships developed with the Swiss draftsman Arnold Böcklin, with the art professor Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max, and with the painters Hans Makart and Wilhelm Leibl. Wilhelm Hubertus Leibl is still regarded today as an important representative of realism, around whom a circle of like-minded painters had gathered at that time. Leibl in particular had a significant artistic influence on Merse von Szinyei: he virtually inspired him for plein air painting, in which the painter depicts a piece of nature completely realistically. Merse wanted to paint from then on. He turned his back on the Academy of Fine Arts and entered his first formative creative period. His works at this time are attributed in part to an early impressionism and on the other hand to realism.
In Munich, Merse later had a studio right next to his friend Arnold Böcklin. Böcklin inspired Merse to use beautiful, strong colors - however, the art critics of the time did not initially honor the colorfulness and harmony in Merse's paintings. In addition, there were financial problems that caused Merse to stop painting and pursue a political career. Later, however, his friends convinced him to exhibit his open-air paintings again - and they promptly met with enthusiastic reactions. By the time Emperor Franz Joseph bought one of his works, Merse was painting again. His second creative phase began. From 1896, the master called himself only Pál Szinyei Merse. His paintings were now exhibited and awarded prizes all over Europe. The successful Pál Szinyei Merse was now appointed director of the Budapest College of Fine Arts. He devoted himself particularly intensively to the promotion of young artists. After visiting Europe's art metropolis Paris in 1908, Merse cultivated his typical, light impressionist style of painting. As a founding father of the "Circle of Hungarian Impressionists and Naturalists", he devoted himself sacrificially to the promotion of young artists, his commitment being honored with the Small Cross of the Order of St. Stephen and other high honors. Shortly before his death in 1920, students and friends of Pál Szinyei Merse, now visually impaired in old age, founded the Szinyei Merse Society, which had a great influence on the art scene in Hungary until the early 1930s.
In 2020, the National Bank of Hungary issued a 1000 forint coin in pure silver. It was issued to honor and commemorate Pál Szinyei Merse on the occasion of his 175th birthday. But who was this Pál Szinyei Merse, whose likeness adorns one side of the valuable coin? As a painter, he is regarded as a leading protagonist of Hungarian modernism. His motifs are on the borderline between realism and early impressionism. In addition, Merse was committed to promoting young artistic talent. Chminianska Nová Ves is the name of a small village in eastern Slovakia, which used to have the place name Szinyeújfalu and whose most famous son Pál Szinyei Merse was born here in 1845. The son of a noble family with the German name Paul Merse von Szinyei began studying art in Munich at the age of 19 with the history and animal painter Sándor Wagner and Carl Theodor von Piloty, who is considered the leading protagonist of realistic history painting.
During his studies, the young Merse von Szinyei was accepted into various artistic circles. Thus, among others, friendships developed with the Swiss draftsman Arnold Böcklin, with the art professor Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max, and with the painters Hans Makart and Wilhelm Leibl. Wilhelm Hubertus Leibl is still regarded today as an important representative of realism, around whom a circle of like-minded painters had gathered at that time. Leibl in particular had a significant artistic influence on Merse von Szinyei: he virtually inspired him for plein air painting, in which the painter depicts a piece of nature completely realistically. Merse wanted to paint from then on. He turned his back on the Academy of Fine Arts and entered his first formative creative period. His works at this time are attributed in part to an early impressionism and on the other hand to realism.
In Munich, Merse later had a studio right next to his friend Arnold Böcklin. Böcklin inspired Merse to use beautiful, strong colors - however, the art critics of the time did not initially honor the colorfulness and harmony in Merse's paintings. In addition, there were financial problems that caused Merse to stop painting and pursue a political career. Later, however, his friends convinced him to exhibit his open-air paintings again - and they promptly met with enthusiastic reactions. By the time Emperor Franz Joseph bought one of his works, Merse was painting again. His second creative phase began. From 1896, the master called himself only Pál Szinyei Merse. His paintings were now exhibited and awarded prizes all over Europe. The successful Pál Szinyei Merse was now appointed director of the Budapest College of Fine Arts. He devoted himself particularly intensively to the promotion of young artists. After visiting Europe's art metropolis Paris in 1908, Merse cultivated his typical, light impressionist style of painting. As a founding father of the "Circle of Hungarian Impressionists and Naturalists", he devoted himself sacrificially to the promotion of young artists, his commitment being honored with the Small Cross of the Order of St. Stephen and other high honors. Shortly before his death in 1920, students and friends of Pál Szinyei Merse, now visually impaired in old age, founded the Szinyei Merse Society, which had a great influence on the art scene in Hungary until the early 1930s.
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.jpg "The Poppy Field, 1896 by Pál Szinyei Merse")
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.jpg "Thawing Snow by Pál Szinyei Merse")
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.jpg "Oculi by Pál Szinyei Merse")
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.jpg "Meadow with Poppies by Pál Szinyei Merse")
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.jpg "The Swing, 1869 by Pál Szinyei Merse")
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.jpg "Mother and Children by Pál Szinyei Merse")
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.jpg "The Lark, 1882 by Pál Szinyei Merse")