Lot 27: Ferencz Franz Eisenhut (Hungarian, 1857-1903) A caravan outside of a mosque 15 1/2 x 23 1/2in (39.4 x 59.8cm)

Ferencz Franz Eisenhut (Hungarian, 1857-1903)
A caravan outside of a mosque signed and dated 'Eisenhut F. / Munchen 91' (lower right)oil on panel15 1/2 x 23 1/2in (39.4 x 59.8cm)

Provenance: Sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 November 1994, lot 84.Franz Eisenhut was born in Nova Palnaka, Austro-Hungary, in 1857. His father hoped that his son would become a merchant but the Hungarian painter Telepy Karoly soon discovered his artistic interests and ability and encouraged the young Franz to attend the Hungarian drawing school where he studied from 1875-1877. He later went on to study at the prestigious Royal Academy in Munich and established his career and became to be considered one of Austria-Hungary's foremost academic artists of the latter part of the 19th Century.Following completion of his training at the Academy he departed for the Orient, which soon became his main source of inspiration. Soon after his first visit to the Orient, during which he visited the Caucasus, he returned to Europe and held his first exhibition in Budapest, where his focus was and always to remain the same as described by his friend Lyka Karoly as the 'Authentic Orient'. This theme is most evident in the subject matter of the current painting.Following his death in 1903, the artist was buried in Munich; and it is interesting to note, such was his fame in his native country that a street was named after the famed artist in Palanka, the Eisenhutgasse.