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Hungarian painter (1844-1900)

The native form of this personal name is Munkácsy Mihály. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

See also: Munkácsy

Mihály Munkácsy (20 February 1844 – 1 May 1900) was a Hungarian painter.

He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.

Early years

Munkácsy was born as Mihály Leó Lieb (Hungarian: Lieb Mihály Leó)^[1] to Mihály Lieb, a bureaucrat of Bavarian origin, and Cecília Reök,^[2] in Munkács, Hungary, Austrian Empire, the town from which he later adopted his pseudonym.

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After being apprenticed to itinerant painter Elek Szamossy, Munkácsy went to Pest, the largest city in Hungary (now part of Budapest), where he sought the patronage of established artists. With the help of the landscape artist Antal Ligeti, he received a state grant to study abroad.

In 1865, he studied at the Academy of Vienna under Karl Rahl. In