Gyula Tornai - Buy or sell works
12 April 1861, Spišský Hrhov (Slovakia) - 24 November 1928, Budapest (Hungary)
Gyula Tornai is regarded as of the most renowned Hungarian painters of Orientalist art.
His training began at the Viennese Academy (1879 - 1882) and continued at the Munich Academy, where he studied under the Hungarian painter Professor Gyula Benczur (1882 - 1889). Thanks to a scholarship, Tornai was able to travel to Florence, where he copied works by Rembrandt. In 1904, after a few successful exhibitions, Tornai decided to embark on a journey around the world, with prolonged sojourns in India and Japan in particular. He would return with numerous paintings, which he had executed during his travels, to exhibit at the Mücsarnok art gallery.
Tornai’s works are based on the objective, photographic observation of his subjects, a characteristic that also stood out in the work of his teacher Benczur. He did not paint only in the Orientalist style, but also interpreted the oriental world with new authenticity.