Ferenc Hatvany
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Baron Ferenc Hatvany (29 October 1881 - 7 February 1958) was a Hungarian painter and art collector. A member of the Hatvany-Deutsch family, he graduated in the Académie Julian in Paris. His collection included paintings from Tintoretto, Cézanne, Renoir, Ingres and Courbet, most notably L'Origine du monde and Femme nue couchée.
Towards the end of the Second World War his paintings were looted by Soviet troops but some were ransomed by Hatvany. In 1947 he emigrated to Paris. In 1955 L’Origine du monde was sold at auction for 1.5 million francs.
Paintings that were looted from Hatvany's collection are still hanging on museum walls in Budapest, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod. Hatvany died in Lausanne in 1958.
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Ferenc Hatvany" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
