4531 - Rezső Zsombolya-Burghardt, Church Interior

Rezső Zsombolya-Burghardt, Church Interior on the left, young monks kneeling in prayer; below the left-hand column, a monk reading; behind him, with a red curtain, a confessional; a sketch-like depiction of a Venetian church interior, oil on canvas, early 20th century, signed and marked ‘Venezia’ in the lower right-hand corner; on the reverse, on the stretcher and canvas, a customs stamp in Cyrillic script that is difficult to read; in need of minor restoration; retouching; framed; inner dimensions: 60 x 49.5 cm. Artist information: Hungarian portrait and landscape painter (1884 in Zsombolya - 1963 in Budapest), a pupil of László Hegedüs in Budapest; from 1903 at the Academia di Brera in Milan under Cesare Talloni; later a pupil in Paris under Lucien Simon and René Ménard, from 1909 to 1911 under John Singer Sargent, until 1919 in Gyula Benczúr’s masterclass at the Academy in Budapest, travelled extensively, participated in exhibitions from 1904, in 1926 he took part in the Biennale, where two of his works were sold to Australia; from 1937 to 1948 he was a professor at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts; he won various prizes in Hungary, such as the Munkácsy Prize and the Szinyei Society Prize. Source: General Artists’ Encyclopaedia Online and the Internet.