Castle of Huszt
by HOLLÓSY, Simon, Oil on canvas, 146 x 197 cm
In 1896, an artists’ colony was established in hilly eastern Hungary at Nagyb�nya (now Baia Mare in Rumania). The Nagyb�nya painters grouped about the initiator of the colony, Simon Holl�sy. They worked in a variety of styles, from an almost transcendent realism à la Bastien-Lepage to a Symbolist form of Art Nouveau, although always retaining an overriding interest in the homeland and its people.