1. Henrik Weber known as Henrik Weber was a Hungarian portrait and history painter in the Realism movement.
10 Facts About Henrik Weber
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Henrik Weber is considered as one of the most important Hungarian painters of the Biedermeier period.
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Henrik Weber was as an excellent portrait painter of his time and a significant figure in Hungarian history painting.
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Henrik Weber had a great influence on his contemporaries, and his students included Karoly Lotz.
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Henrik Weber's books were filled with all sorts of magnificent figures he drew.
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Henrik Weber became a student at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1842.
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Henrik Weber interrupted this stay in Munich twice, in 1841 and 1842, during which time he visited Tyrol and Switzerland for landscape studies.
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Henrik Weber visited Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples where he found a great inspiration.
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Henrik Weber painted many Italian landscapes and female figures dressed in Italian folk costumes.
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Henrik Weber's Hungaria, painted in the early 1840s, symbolized the self-consciousness of a glorious past and the hope of a prosperous, peaceful future.