Artists Illustrating Boys' Fashions: Miklós Barabás (Hungary, 1810-98)



Figure 1.-- Miklós Barabás painted an enormous number of portraits. He is best loved, however, for his genre work. This is nostalgic work painted by Barabás (1843). It depits a travelling Gypsy family in Transylvania. Here we can recognize some stereotypical elements as the old smoking woman and the bare-breasted mother.

Miklós Barabás was born in Kézdimárkosfalva, Transylvania, now part of Romania (1810). At the time it was part of the Austrian empire, but with claims by Romania. His parents were Hungarian. Barabás is rongly involved with the birth of 'romantic pictography' in Hungarian painting. As a result he is perhaps the most popular Hungarian artist of the 19th century. He enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Vienna (1829). He was a student of Johan Ender. Hungary as of course part of the Austrian Hapsburg domains. He was to later say that he learned more from observing nature and his association with other artists. He returned to Cluj, where he mastered lithography. In 1831 he spent two years in Bucharest (1831) where he dveloped a reputtion for portraits. Romania as the result of the Russian-Ottoman War (1828-29) had achieved its autonomy. Barabás moved to Bucharest where he began his career (1831). There he worked on both genre paintings and portraits. He trveled in Italy to study the great enaisance artits (1834–35). He painting several landscapes. He had worked in oils, but in Itly he started doing water colors as a result of an association with English painter W.L. Leitch. Barabás also developed skiils as a lithographer, at the time the only was to reproduce paintings in a printed form. He returned to Hungary and began aucessful career as a portrait painter. As his reputation grew, he received commissions from the reat figures of the Empire, inclusing Emperor Francis Joseph, the composer Franz Liszt, the poet János Arany, the social and economic reformer István, Gróf (count) Széchenyi, and the writer-politician József, Báró (baron) Eötvös. At the age of only 26 years, this was a signal honor. Much of his body of work is portraits. Barabás was elected a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1836). He led the romantic movement in Hungary and was stringly influenced by the Biedermeier movement in Germany. He was elected president of the Art Association (1862). This is a genre work painted by Barabás (1843). It depits a travelling Gypsy family in Transylvania (figure 1). Here we can recognize some stereotypical elements as the old smoking woman and the bare-breasted mother.







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