Simon Hollósy
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The native form of this personal name is Hollósy Simon. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Simon Hollósy (2 February 1857 – 8 May 1918) was a Hungarian painter.[1] He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism.
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Hollósy was not highly productive as an artist and was more important as an influential teacher, who influenced the painters of the Nagybánya artists' colony. Together, they were significant in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Hungarian art. In 1966 the Hungarian National Gallery had a major exhibition of the colony's work: The Art of Nagybánya. Centennial Exhibition in Celebration of the Artists' Colony in Nagybánya.[2]