Paintings by Károly Ferenczy

Top to Bottom Images: “Joseph Being Sold into Slavery”, 1900;  “The Return of the Prodigal Son”, 1908;  “Orpheus”, 1894

Károly Ferenczy was a Hungarian painter and leading member of the Nagybánya artists’ colony. He was among several artists who went to Munich for study in the late nineteenth century, where he attended free classes by the Hungarian painter, Simon Hollósy. Upon his return to Hungary, Ferenczy helped found the Nagybánya artists colony in 1896, and became one of its major figures. Ferenczy is considered the “father of Hungarian impressionism and post-impressionism” and the “founder of modern Hungarian painting.”