Sándor Liezen-Mayer
Hungarian painter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sándor Liezen-Mayer, or Alexander von Liezen-Mayer was a Hungarian-born German illustrator and history painter. Biography Apparently destined for a military career, he showed an aptitude for drawing and, thanks to the intervention of an uncle, was able to attend the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied with Karl von Blaas. After eighteen months there, he held his first exhibit in Pest in 1857. He then went to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich under Hermann Anschütz but, by 1862, had found a position in the studios of Karl von Piloty, which had a decisive influence on his style. In 1865, he won an award for two drawings he entered in a contest at the Academy and received a commission to portray the canonization of Elizabeth of Hungary, which was completed in 1867.
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