Franz Liszt's Love Letter to Marie d'Agoult

"My heart overflows with emotion and joy!

I do not know what heavenly languor, what infinite pleasure permeates it and burns me up.

It is as if I had never loved!

Tell me whence these uncanny disturbances spring, these inexpressible foretastes of delight, these divine, tremors of love.

Oh! all this can only spring from you, sister, angel, woman, Marie!"

Henri Lehmann | Marie d'Agoult, 1843 | Petit Palais, Paris
Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d'Agoult (née de Flavigny; 31 December 1805 – 5 March 1876), was a Franco-German romantic author and historian, known also by her pen name, Daniel Stern.
Her first stories (Hervé, Julien, and Valentia) were published in 1841–1845. Her best-known work (written as "Daniel Stern") is the Histoire de la révolution de 1848 (appearing from 1850 to 1853, in 3 volumes). D'Agoult's other works include the novel Nélida (1846), Lettres Républicaines in Esquisses morales et politiques (1849, collected articles), Trois journées de la vie de Marie Stuart (1856), Florence et Turin (1862), Histoire des commencements de la république aux Pays-Bas (1872), A Catholic Mother Speaks to Her Children (1906, posthumously) and Mes souvenirs (1877, posthumously).

Jozsef Borsos (1821-1883)

Jozsef Borsos was a Hungarian🎨 portrait painter and photographer.

He was also renowned for his numerous "genre" paintings and is most often recognized as an artist of the Biedermeier.

Jozsef Borsos studied in Budapest and subsequently at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts from 1840 until 1842.

Zoltán Hornyik, 1960 | Impressionist painter

Hungarian painter Zoltán Hornyik was born in Kemecse.

His first maters were Borbála Fekete, János Kapcsa and Lajos Bíró. He graduated at the Teacher Training College of Nyíregyháza as a teacher of arts and geography in 1985.

After a short career as a teacher he transferred into arts. Since then he has been working as a freelance painter.

Mihály Munkácsy (1844-1900)

Mihály Munkácsy (Mukačevo, 20 febbraio 1844 – Endenich, 1º maggio 1900) è stato un pittore Ungherese.

Mihály Lieb, suo vero nome, fu un pittore accademico, attivo a Parigi e a Budapest negli anni fra il 1870 e il 1890. Studiò nel 1863 a Budapest e nel 1864 a Vienna.

Espose al Salon di Parigi nel 1870 ottenendo un successo inaspettato. In una trentina d'anni riuscì a produrre circa seicento quadri nei generi più disparati: ritratti, nature morte, paesaggi, scene di genere, interni borghesi, composizioni storiche e religiose.

Alcuni di essi sono di dimensioni assai grandi (100 m² per l'Apoteosi del Rinascimento, oggi al Museo di Belle arti di Vienna, più di 60 m² e un centinaio di personaggi per La conquista del Paese, oggi nella sede del Parlamento Ungherese).

Purtroppo la maggior parte delle sue opere si è deteriorata per l'impiego di un fondo di colore al bitume, la cui ossidazione ha cominciato ad annerirle gravemente subito dopo la loro realizzazione.

János Vaszary | The Golden Age, 1898

János Miklós Vaszary (30 November 1867, Kaposvár - 19 April 1939, Budapest) was a Hungarian painter⏭ and graphic artist.

He was born into a prominent Catholic family and his uncle was Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, the Archbishop of Esztergom. His art studies began at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts under János Greguss (hu). In 1887, he went to Munich, where he studied with Gabriel von Hackl and Ludwig von Löfftz. After seeing an exhibition of paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage, he moved to Paris in 1899 and enrolled at the Académie Julian.

Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt portraits by Ary Scheffer

Ary Scheffer (Dutch-French Romantic painter, 1795-1858)🎨🎨 | Portrait of Frédéric Chopin, 1847

- Dordrecht Museum, Netherlands

Frédéric François Chopin, born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano.

Laszlo Gulyas, 1960

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Laszlo Gulyas graduated at the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. Laszlo continued his studies as a student of the Academy of Fine Arts between 1983-1987.

He has been member of the National Society of Hungarian Artists since 1987. The artist developed his individual world of images and acquired the painting techniques of the early masters of painting under the influence of the universal art of Rembrandt.

This is what makes him distinct form his contemporaries. He seems to be charmed by the revival of heritage rather than by demolishing the art of painting or by recording its death struggle. In his works he applies the contrastive effects of the light and the shade with brilliant skills. Besides the clear colours his sketching appears to be remarkable.

The principal values of his gift are exhibited in his portrays of his family, which are full of vitality and harmony.

Franz von Lenbach | Portrait of Franz Liszt

Franz von Lenbach (13 December 1836, Schrobenhausen - 6 May 1904, Munich)** was regarded as the leading German** portraitist of his era.

Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary.