Brief Biography-László Mednyánszky was born in Beckó, Hungary, now Western Slovakia, in 1852. He was from a noble family and was a painter and illustrator. He studied at the Technische Hochschule in Zurich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, followed by the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The paintings of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot and the Austrian painter August von Pettenkofen influenced him. He viewed the art of Italy and worked in Vienna and Nagyõr, where Thomas Ender helped him in his work. He spent three years in Paris, and during the war, he stayed in Galicia, Serbia, where his images of war played a significant part in his melancholic style. Mednyánszky is Hungary’s foremost painter of realism.