László Mednyánszky belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists László Mednyánszky as Hungarian artist, painter (1852-1919).
László Mednyánszky was born at Beckov in 1852. His recorded nationality is Hungary. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, graphic designer and illustrator.
His recorded movement is impressionism.
Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Hungary shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
László Mednyánszky died in 1919, aged 67. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Impressionism
