Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka as Slovak painter (1853-1919).
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka was born at Sabinov in 1853. His recorded nationality is Hungary.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, journalist and pharmacist.
His recorded movement is expressionism.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
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.
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka died in 1919, aged 66. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Expressionism
