Béla Iványi Grünwald

1867 – 1940

Hungarian painter. He was a pupil of Bertalan Székely and Károly Lotz in the School of Decorative Art in Budapest in 1882-84. He studied art at Gabriel von Hackl (1843-1926) in the Munich Academy, then at the Julian Academy in Paris. He was particularly influenced by Bastien Lapage and Dagnan-Bouveret. Later he returned to Munich and joined Hollósy 's group of artists. His pictures painted in the 1890s reflected naturalistic tendencies of Bastien-Lapage ( The Warlord's Sword, Devotion, 1891). He joined Károly Ferenczy 's plein air group of the Nagybánya school in his Nagybánya period in 1896-1909. He became a major teacher at the Nagybánya Free School founded in 1902. His years in Nagybánya represent his most important period in art ( Drying Clothes, The Three Magi, 1903). He was awarded with the Fraknói-prize in 1904. He was the leader of the Kecskemét art school in 1911-1918. His decorative and stylizing period was over by about 1915. In his landscapes of the Great Plain, he again turned to a realistic approach (Sweep-Pole Well, 1924). Later he painted pictures with movement typical of baroque, then simple and realistic ones. In his later years, his still-lives and pictures on gypsies were of less significance.

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