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Baron László Mednyánszky or ''Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky'' ((スロバキア語:Ladislav Medňanský)) (23 April 1852 – 17 April 1919), the painter-philosopher, is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Hungarian art.〔 〕 Despite an aristocratic background, he spent most of his life moving around Europe working as an artist. Mednyánszky spent considerable periods in seclusion but mingled with people across society - in the aristocracy, art world, peasantry and army - many of whom became the subjects of his paintings. His most important works depict scenes of nature and poor, working people, particularly from his home region in Kingdom of Hungary. He is also known as a painter of folklore of Upper Hungary (today Slovakia). ==Biography== Mednyánszky was born in Beckó, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy (today Beckov in Slovakia), to Eduard Mednyánszky and Maria Anna Mednyánszky, (née Szirmay) both from landowning families. He came from a Hungarian noble family. Some say he was of Slovak origin, however, according to others, he was born into a Hungarian family with Polish〔Gyula Duba, (Mednyánszky ), Irodalmi Szemle, 2004/10, Translations: "lengyel ősről és a „stiborida” rokonságról-Polish ancestry and 'Stiborida relations'; "Franciaföldről hozta a szép Richer Eleonórát-He (his grandfather) brought his wife from France"〕〔(Nyitra vármegye nemesi családai (Noble families of Nyitra county) ) from: Samu Borovszky, Magyarország vármegyéi és városai. Nyitra vármegye (Counties and towns of Hungary, Nyitra county), 1899, Translation: "(Mednyánszky) családi hagyomány szerint Lengyelországból származott-They were originated from Poland according to the traditions of Mednyánszky family"〕 and Hungarian〔 ancestry. One of his grandmothers, Eleonora Richer was of French origin.〔 His native tongue was Hungarian and it is not even sure he could speak in Slovak.〔 Mednyánszky's family moved in 1861 to the chateau of his grandfather, Baltazár Szirmay, at (''Strážky''), near Szepesbéla (Spišská Belá) in north-eastern Slovakia. This was to be the setting for many of his works. Mednyánszky met the Austrian artist Thomas Ender in 1863 when Ender visited the chateau at Strážky. Ender took an interest in Mednyánszky's early efforts at drawing, lending his assistance to improve Mednyánszky's skills. Mednyánszky attended a grammar school in Késmárk (Kežmarok), near his home, then attended the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) in Munich in 1872—1873. Dissatisfied in Munich, he moved to Paris〔 to attend the École des Beaux-Arts. After the death of his professor, Isidore Pils, in 1875, Mednyánszky left the École and began practicing independently from Montmartre. Mednyánszky returned to Strážky after 1877 to continue painting, and subsequently travelled widely in Europe, between his childhood homes in Upper Hungary and Budapest, Vienna, Paris and beyond. Mednyánszky visited the Szolnok artists' colony in the autumn of 1877 and Italy in 1878. His mother died in 1883, after which he lived in seclusion in Nagyőr. He returned to Nagyőr in 1887 to help deal with an outbreak of cholera but soon fell ill himself, with pneumonia. He spent much of 1889-1892 in Paris and returned regularly to ''Strážky'' until 1900. His father, Eduard, died in 1895. Mednyánszky held his only solo exhibition at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1897. For the years 1905-1911 he lived in Budapest, then later moved to Vienna. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Mednyánszky was in Budapest again. He worked as a war correspondent on the Austro-Hungarian frontlines in Galicia, Serbia and the southern Tirol. In the spring of 1918 he returned to Strážky to recover from war wounds. After spending some time working in Budapest, Mednyánszky died in poor health in the spring of 1919, in Vienna. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「László Mednyánszky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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