Oil, canvas, original wood frame. Signature in upper left corner. Size of canvas: 80 cm x 60 cm. Size with frame – 98 x 78 cm. Maria Szantho was born in. Which is in the South part of. Szantho Marias first love was music, she was a talented piano player and finished her music studies as a teacher. She earned her Diploma at the. Her Diploma was signed by Zoltán Kodály the famous Hungarian composer. Shortly after completing her music studies she had decided to pursue her interest in painting. Went on several study tours to. I recall her talking about the Parisienne atmosphere. Her rich and detailed naturalist paintings were inspired by the hedonism of Károly Lotz and the joie de vivre of Gyula Benczúr. She studied with and from famous Hungarian painters such as Géza Kukán, Bertalan Karlovszky, Pál Fried and Mátyás Vitéz. Maria Szantho exhibited from the mid 1920s at major art galleries such as the Mcsarnok in. She had a collected exhibition in. Her work is timeless. She specialized in portraying women posing nude against a landscape, also still lives and portraits. In 1939 she represented. With three paintings on the. The paintings sent to the. Because of the beginnings of WWII. In the early 1950’s the Embassy of the. Contacted her and asked her to paint a huge portrait of Stalin. She objected saying that materials are scarce, she did not have access to a large canvas. Stalin passed away unexpectedly in 1953, so she did not have to paint the portrait. They have never asked her to give back the canvas which she put to better use. Maria Szanthos main foreign markets were. United States of America. She also had many private orders from abroad and. After WWII in the communist. One was not allowed to sell privately to western countries, so she had to use the government owned foreign trading company Artex to export her paintings. On her 100th birthday on July 31. Greeted her on her birthday party at. On October 23, 1997 she received one of the highest official Hungarian recognitions. Árpád Göncz then President of the. Awarded her with the decoration of the Officers Grand Cross of the. To honour her lifetime achievement. Szánthó Mária passed away at the age of 100 and half year on March 11. At the Castle Karolyi (Károlyi Kastély). Please contact me for further details. The item “NUDE, AUSTRIAN HUNGARIAN PAINTER Maria Szantho, Nude beauty, 1940-1950`s” is in sale since Friday, December 11, 2015. This item is in the category “Art\Paintings”. The seller is “klimt_88″ and is located in Budapest. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Signed?: Signed
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Large (Greater than 30in.)
- Region of Origin: Europe
- Original/ Reproduction: Original
- Size Type/ Largest Dimension: Large (Greater than 30”)
- Style: Postimpressionism
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Painting Surface: Canvas
- Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
- Medium: Oil
- Date of Creation: 1900-1949
- Features: Framed
- Color: Multi-Color
- Subject: Figures & Portraits
- Originality: Original