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Maria Szantho (1897 - 1998)

Hungarian realist painter.

Maria Szantho’s first love was music, she was a talented piano player and finished her music studies as a teacher. Shortly after completing her music studies she had decided to pursue her interest in painting. She went on several study tours to France and Italy. Her rich and detailed naturalist paintings were inspired by the hedonism of Károly Lotz and the joie de vivre of Gyula Benczúr.

Maria’s work is timeless. She specialized in portraying women posing nude against a landscape, also still lives and portraits.  Her models are hedonistically portrayed, she used elements of impressionism and romance. Since her first love was music, her portraits and nudes often permeated with musical themes and idyllic environments enhanced with rich draperies and musical colour accords. Banjo, violin or tambourine were some of the musical instruments she depicted. 

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