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Gyula Benczúr was an academic Romanticist. He was born in Nyíregyháza (1844). His parents were Vilmos Benczúr and Paulina Laszgallner. His father's fmily was an old noble family. The family moved to Kassa (now Košice) when Gyula was still a small boy. He demonstarted a talent for drawing as a boy. He received his initial art training as ateenager at a private art school in Košice, now in Slovakia, studying under Hermann Anschutz and Johann Georg Hiltensperger (1860-61) He studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Karl von Piloty (1865-69). He traveled to Italy to see the work of great masters pursue further studies (1869). He began working in Munich. He visited Paris (1870) and taught at the Munich Academy (1874-83). He then returned to Hungary to become the director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, a position he held for the rest of his life. He was a noted Hungarian artist and art teacher. He is described a major 'exponent of academicism'. His work was both portraists and historical scenes. He is ranks as 'one of the greatest Hungarian masters of historicism'. He very early made his mark by executing works that appealed to Hungarian naruinal spirit. He won the first prize in a national competition for historical painting with his monumental work--'The Baptism of Vajk'. Vajk was the pagan leader who became Stephen I, the first King of Hungary who baptised around (1000). The work secured Benczúr's reputation as a leading historical painter in Hungary. Art historians believe that hise capturing the subject with great authenticity during his early period, but later work tend toward some pompous—depictions of the Hungarian nobility.
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