Tivadar Alconiere

Tivadar Cohn Hermann Alconiere (1797, Mattersburg - 1865, Vienna) was a nineteenth century Austro- Hungarian painter. Cohn Hermann was his original family name.

He began studying art in Vienna in 1812. Born to Jewish parents, he converted to Catholicism in order to pursue a career in art, and adopted the surname "Alconiere". [cite encyclopedia | author = Adrian M. Darmon | title = Alconiere, Cohn Theodore, Tivadar dit Alconiere | encyclopedia = Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie des peintres, photographes et sculpteurs | publisher = Carnot | year = 2003 | id = ISBN 2848550112 | pages = p. 36] He made a pilgrimage to Rome in the 1830s, where he spent 13 years pursuing art studies. He returned to Hungary in the 1840s and painted in the towns of Székesfehérvár, Pápa and Pest until the 1850s when he moved back to Vienna. He then dedicated his life entirely to the pursuit of his religion and died as a cleric in an Austrian monastery.fact|date=August 2008

Alconiere painted mainly portraits such as Count László Károlyi on horseback.

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