Sandor Brodszky, attr., Thunderstorm Landscape
wide foothill landscape with stream, under an effectively cloudy ...

Sandor Brodszky, attr., Thunderstorm Landscape
wide foothill landscape with stream, under an effectively cloudy sky, with an approaching thunderstorm, probably landscape from Upper Bavaria, on this Thieme-Becker remarks "... had a decisive effect on his well-tempered academic style. ... In the following years he painted numerous landscapes, mostly vedute, old castles and storm atmospheres. ...", impasto painting in dark-toned colours, oil on cardboard, 2nd half 19th century, inscribed "By. S.", indistinct annotation on the reverse of the cardboard "Brodszky Sándor ..." in lead, partly wavy ground, restored, framed, folding dimensions approx. 22.5 x 32 cm. Artist info: also Sandor Brodszký, German: Alexander Brodszky or frz.: Alexandre Brodszky, Hungarian painter and photographer of Slovakian descent (1819 Tóalmás to 1901 Budapest), from 1838 studied medicine in Pest, 1841-45 changed to study painting at the Academy in Vienna, here pupil of Josef Mössmer and Franz Steinfeld the Younger, from 1845 further training in Munich with Albert Zimmermann and Friedrich Voltz, influenced by Carl Rottmann, Anton Ligeti and Carl Markó, from 1845 member of the Munich Artists' Association, in Munich acquaintance with his compatriot József von Molnár, with whom he travelled through Bavaria, Switzerland and Tyrol for two years from 1846, from 1842 attended the exhibitions of the Pest Artists' Association and from 1847 the Munich Art Association, 1856 return to Pest, here worked for Emperor Franz Joseph I. and the Hungarian government. and the Hungarian government, ran a photographic studio in Györ with Józef Molnár 1862-64, after 1870 was regarded as a traditionalist and value-conservative landscape painter in the spirit of the Viennese and Munich schools, Source: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Müller-Singer, Boetticher and Wikipedia.