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Mihaly Munkacsy (originally Michael von Lieb;; February 20, 1844 – May 1, 1900) was a Hungarian painter, who lived in Paris and earned international reputation with his genre* pictures and large scale Biblical paintings.
Munkacsy was born Michael von Lieb to German parents in Munkacs, Kingdom of Hungary, the town from which he later gathered his pseudonym. After being apprenticed to itinerant* painter Elek Szamossy, Munkacsy went to Pest, the capital city, where he sought the patron (showing 500 of 9523 characters). |
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