Mór Adler was a Hungarian painter.

Career

Adler, who had a Jewish background, was one of the pioneers of Hungarian painting. Best known for his portraiture and still life paintings which he executed in a fine realistic manner.

He stood out as a student of some merit at the Weisenberger school of graphic art, from where he went to the Vienna

Vienna

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 Academy. There he was taught by Ender

Ender

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 and Kupelweiser, the then well known historical and religious painters, between 1842 and 1845. He supported himself with drawings of medical subjects for a doctor at a general hospital.

He then travelled to Munich

Munich

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 to study the works of Zimneirmann and Schnorr von Carolsfeld and for further studies in Paris and Drolling

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He settled in Pest in 1848, where he would become a respected figure in the art world by the end of his career. He took part in the Pest Artists Group exhibition in 1851 with a still life and would take part in this annually for the next 58 years. He only interrupted his stay in Pest with a few trips abroad, namely to Germany, Italy and France. His works featured in the Hungarian Millenary exhibition of 1896 and in the winter exhibition of 1900-1901 (a loving portrayal of his mother).

Collections

• Hungarian Historical Portrait Gallery - Portrait of Baron Jozsef Eotvos
  József Eötvös
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  , 1872
• Museum of Fine Arts
  Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)
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   - Still life
• Ernst Museum - Self Portrait

Sources

• Hungarian Wikipedia
• Adler, Mór , in Peter Ujvári (ed.) (1929), Magyar Zsidó Lexikon ("Hungarian Jewish Encyclopedia"), vol. 1, p. 9

External links

• Illustrated obituary , from Károly Lyka (ed.)(1902), Művészet ("Arts"), vol. 1(6), pp. 422–424; via Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts library.