István Szonyi
Hungarian painter, printmaker, 1894–1960
After being discharged in 1918, he returned to the Academy, this time as István Réti’s pupil. In 1921, Szőnyi had his first one-man show at Ernst Museum. During trips to Europe (Vienna and Berlin) he became acquainted with the great classical masters.
As a significant member of the “etching generation”, he contributed to the development of Hungarian graphic art at the beginning of the 1920s.Szőnyi was appointed to a professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1937. He taught for more than two decades. Though he was the leading professor of the mural department he got but a few monumental commissions.
During his last years he was often ill. He spent almost all his time in Zebegény. The Szonyi Istvan Memorial Museum in Zebegeny, Bartoky was established in 1967.
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American artist, born c.1893 in Hungary
American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951
American painter and illustrator, 1883–1960
English artist, 1885–1954, active in America
American artist and illustrator, 1877–1960
American illustrator, painter, printmaker, and author, born 1940
