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Portrait of a Young Man, an Orientalist painting by Gyula Tornai, 1890
Orientalist · 19th century
Artist & designer
Gyula Tornai
Hungarian · 1861–1928 · 1 work available
Key facts
- Nationality
- Hungarian
- Born
- 1861
- Died
- 1928
- Movement
- Academic art, Orientalism
- Period
- 19th century
- Techniques
- oil painting
- Also spelled
- Jules Tornai
Biography
Gyula Tornai (1861–1928) was a Hungarian painter specialising in Orientalist subjects. Trained at the academies of Vienna and Munich and then under Gyula Benczúr in Budapest, he was influenced by the style of Hans Makart. Following travels to Spain, Algeria and Morocco, he turned to depicting street life, markets and harems. He travelled to India and Japan from 1905. His works are held in the Hungarian National Gallery.
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Gyula Tornai
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