Sándor Petőfi was a Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He is the author of the Nemzeti dal, which is said to have inspired the revolution in the Kingdom of Hungary that grew into a war for independence from the Austrian Empire. It is most likely that he died in the Battle of Segesvár, one of the last battles of the war.
Ferenc Kazinczy, was a Hungarian author, poet, translator, neologist, an agent in the regeneration of the Hungarian language and literature at the turn of the 19th century. Today his name is connected with the extensive Language Reform of the 19th century, when thousands of words were coined or revived, enabling the Hungarian language to keep up with scientific progress and become an official language of the nation in 1844. For his linguistic and literary works he is regarded as one of the cultural founders of the Hungarian Reform Era along with Dávid Baróti Szabó, Ferenc Verseghy, György Bessenyei, Mátyás Rát and János Kis.
Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.
George Peter Alexander Healy was an American portrait painter. He was one of the most prolific and popular painters of his day, and his sitters included many of the eminent personages of his time. Born in Boston, he studied in Europe, and over his lifetime had studios in Paris and Chicago.
Árpád Feszty was a Hungarian painter. He was born in the town of Ógyalla. His ancestors were German settlers. He was the fifth child of Silvester Rehrenbeck (1819–1910), an affluent landowner at Ógyalla, and his wife Jozefa (Linzmayer). Silvester was ennobled by the emperor on 21 April 1887, and the family thereafter took the name Martosi Feszty. Feszty mostly painted scenes from Hungarian history and religion.
János Arany was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 102 ballads that have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy.
Miklós Barabás was a Hungarian painter. He is mostly known for his portrait paintings, including a famous portrait of a young Franz Liszt, done in 1847 and an 1853 portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz was a Polish realist painter of the late 19th century specializing in portraits, genre and historical painting. Ajdukiewicz, was born and raised in Galicia, settled in the imperial capital upon the completion of his studies, but maintained a close connection with his homeland. While in Vienna, he illustrated the epic novel The Deluge (Potop) by Polish Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz.
Heinrich Friedrich Füger was a German classicist portrait and historical painter.
The Hungarian National Museum was founded in 1802 and is the national museum for the history, art, and archaeology of Hungary, including areas not within Hungary's modern borders, such as Transylvania; it is separate to the collection of international art in the Hungarian National Gallery. The museum is in Budapest VIII in a Neoclassical building, purpose-built during 1837–47 by the architect Mihály Pollack.
Charles Joshua Chaplin was a French painter and printmaker who painted both landscapes and portraits. He worked in techniques such as pastels, lithography, watercolor, chalk, oil painting and etching. He was best known for his elegant portraits of young women.
József Rippl-Rónai was a Hungarian painter. He first introduced modern artistic movements in the Hungarian art.
Alexander originally Sándor vonWagner was a Hungarian painter.
Balazs Szabo (1943–2022) was a Hungarian-born artist and author that lived in the United States since 1956. He was best known as a fine artist influenced by the Viennese "fantastic realists" style. He derived his artistic inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs among others. His portraits, large murals and surrealist works are internationally known and can be found in private and in corporate collections throughout Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Europe and the United States. Balazs Szabo's selected works are in the museums of Hawaii, New Jersey and North Carolina. Mr. Szabo's first published art book The eye of Muse (1985) won the 1987 USA Print Design Excellence Award was selected out of 40,000 contestants. His historical autobiography Knock in the Night published by Refugee Press (2006) has been translated into the Hungarian from the original English in 2008.
Theodor Benedikt Sockl was an Austrian painter and photographer.
Jakab Marastoni, originally Jacopo Antonio Marastoni was a portrait painter and lithographer in the Austrian Empire.
Georg Decker was an Austro-Hungarian portrait artist.
János Greguss was a Hungarian genre and landscape painter. He was also a popular art teacher.
Júlia Szendrey was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator, most known as the wife of celebrated Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi.
Mária Hrúz [mother of Sándor Petőfi] (c. 1845), Petőfi Literary Museum
Discovery of King Louis II's Body (1851), Library of the Reformed College, Debrecen
Artist's Mother (early 1850s), Hungarian National Museum
Detail of Sappho (c. 1860), Hungarian National Museum
Coriolanus (1869), Munkácsy Mihály Museum, Békéscsaba
