KARCSAY, Lajos
(1860, Kiskölked - 1932, Nagygeresd)



Although his parents had hoped for a different career for him, Karcsay was so much drawn to painting that in 1878 he went to study at the Munich Academy, where he was initially taught by Alois Gabl and Otto Seitz, and by Sándor Wágner later. Having completed his studies, Karcsay continued to live in Munich, sending his paintings to various exhibitions in Hungary.

He first took part in the exhibitions organized by the Budapest Palace of Exhibitions in 1884, when he entered a painting entitled "Girls Gardening". His works - as also shown in their titles "Gyi te fakó", "The Teaser" - were mostly genre pictures, a division of painting very popular at the time. He had some success with them, as illustrated by the gold medal awarded to him in 1885 for his work entitled "Fond Memory" and in 1886 for "Apple Picking". Another of his paintings, "The Miser", was purchased by the King, to be displayed in the Royal Palace of Buda. He painted his last major work a large-scale and macabre painting entitled "The Kitchen of Witches", in 1890.

Despite his considerable success, Karcsay gave up painting in the late 1890s and retired to his estate to manage his property. He died in his manor at Nagygeresd decades later, at the age of seventy-two.



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