Mór Than
The native form of this personal name is Than Mór. This article uses the Western name order.
| Mór Than Than Mór | |
|---|---|
 Contemporaneous etching of Mör Than, by Rusz Károly | |
| Born |
Than Mór June 19, 1828 |
| Died | March 11, 1899 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
Mór Than (19 June 1828 – 11 March 1899) was a Hungarian painter.
Born at Óbecse (Bečej, today in Serbia), he was educated in Italy and Vienna beside his cooperation with similar famous painters in his homeland. He worked in a realistic – pre-impressionist style. His subjects were mostly historic events and portraits but also mythological or fantasy themes. He painted frescos which decorate several prominent public buildings in Budapest.
Mór Than also designed the first Hungarian postage stamp in 1848,[1] but it was never used because Hungary remained part of the Austrian Empire in that time, after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Than died in Trieszt in 1899.
Young Woman Wearing a Renascence Dress, 1886 (private collection)
The Feast of Attila by Mór Than (1870), at the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Postage stamp design, 1848
References
- ↑ Visnyovszki, Gábor (1996). Stamps. Budapest: Állami Nyomda. p. 85.
External links
Media related to Mór Than at Wikimedia Commons
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