FIALKA, Olga
(1848, Theresienstadt - 1930, Nagybánya)



Her family supported her plans to become a painter. She gathered her first experience of working as an artist in the studio of Jan Matejko in Krakow, and later she was a student of August Eisenmenger (1830-1907) in Vienna. On her mother's side she was a relative of Károly Ferenczy whom she met for the second time in 1984, and this meeting (and their marriage) marked a turning point in her art. By this time Olga Fialka was an artist with exhibitions behind her, she painted portraits, and made book illustrations. While the style of her few known paintings was shaped by late Viennese biedermeier, however without its artificial emotional charge, her elaborate illustrations bear the marks of influence of late romanticism. She gradually gave up artistic activities after her children were born. Her artistic skills and extraordinary erudition played an important role in shaping the intellectual background of the Ferenczy family.


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