‘Balloon’, a painting by renowned Hungarian artist Pál Szinyei Merse has been reproduced on a 500m² firewall in the courtyard of the Budapest high school named after the painter. “It is unique not only in Budapest, but also in Hungary, to put an authentic reproduction of a famous painting on a firewall. In nearly 20 […]

Opening this Friday, the Hungarian National Gallery (MNG) presents an exhibition, entitled Image and Cult, of around 120 works by Pál Szinyei Merse, the first modern painter of Hungarian fine art - in parallel with his Hungarian and international contemporaries. The life’s work of Pál Szinyei Merse, an outstanding master of nineteenth-century Hungarian painting and […]

The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) has issued a silver collector coin with a face value of HUF 10,000 to honor the 175th anniversary of Hungarian painter Pál Szinyei Merse’s birth and the 100th anniversary of his death. The collector coin, which also has its non-ferrous metal version with a face value of HUF 2,000, […]