- József Rippl-Rónai
József Rippl-Rónai (1861, Kaposvár - 1927, Kaposvár) was a Hungarian painter.
After his studies at the highschool in
Kaposvár he went to study toBudapest , where he got a degree in pharmacy. In 1884 he travels to Munich to study painting at the Academy. 2 years later he gets a grant and that makes him able to move to Paris and study by Munkácsy. In 1888 he meets with the members ofLes Nabis and under their influence he paints his first important work The Inn at Pont-Aven, a very deep paining with dark atmosphere. His first big success was the paining My Grandmother (1894).Later he travels back to Hungary, first the critics doesn't accept him very warmly, but finally he celebrates a success with the exhibition Rippl-Rónai Impressions 1890-1900. He believes that for an artist there is important not only his work, but also how he lives and what he wears. That is why he becomes also a designer (Andrassy dining room and the window-pane in the Ernst Museum). His exhibitions in Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna have got a great success in 1911-1913. He paints his last big work in 1919 (portrait of his friend Zorka) and in 1927 dies in his villa Roma in Kaposvár.
External links
* [http://www.hung-art.hu/index-en.html Fine Arts in Hungary]
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