A Painter Prince in Paris: The Munkácsy Myth
A Painter Prince in Paris: The Munkácsy Myth

Summary/Abstract: Béla Lázár’s A Munkácsy-kérdés (The Munkácsy Question), published in 1936, provided a controversial overview of the literature on Munkácsy. The author expresses himself at times with a passion that indicates that he connected the problem of the proper evaluation of Munkácsy's painting with the international recognition of Hungarian art as such, and its ranking in Europe. His book is an example of a tradition which has survived in some form in Hungarian art history right up to the present; it can best be described as the teleological^ view. And despite the many monographs and studies on the subject since the publication of Lázár’s book, the Munkácsy question has remained open to this day. Most of the authors were concerned primarily with whether, or to what extent, Munkácsy had fulfilled the cluster of expectations that goes under the name of ‘national art’.

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