MARKÓ, Károly the Younger

Painter, son of Károly Markó the Elder. He studied in the landscape painting department of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna (1836) and from 1838 under his father in Italy. In 1843 he visited Rome and Florence, and in 1845 he took part in the exhibitions of the Societa Promotrice di Belle Arti in Florence. From 1851 to 1854 he lived in Vienna, showing his paintings in the exhibitions of the Österreichische Kunstverein (e.g. Carrara Landscape, 1852). His work was also exhibited in Milan, Genoa and Livorno, and he sent some paintings to be shown in the Budapest Artists Circle and in the Hungarian National Fine Arts Association exhibitions. He became an honorary member of the academies in Florence, Genoa, Perugia and Urbino.

His landscapes were painted in his father's style (e.g. Sunset, 1861; Budapest, Hungarian National GalleryGLOSSARYan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen).), although they were freer, stronger, less detached and used colder colours. In some of them he used forest motifs (e.g. Wooded Landscape, 1861). He painted a number of scenes of Rome and Carrara as well as Dante's Meeting with Virgil (1865). In 1885, at the invitation of a Russian princess to whose daughter he had given drawing lessons in Florence, he settled in Moscow. After his death 34 of his paintings and sketches, including Landscape in the Rain and Hill Road with Houses, were returned to Hungary; some of these were bought by the Hungarian National Museum and Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest.