Artúr Tölgyessy

Artúr Tölgyessy (1 May 1853, Szeged - 2 February 1920, Budapest) was a Hungarian landscape painter; specializing in scenes from the area around Lake Balaton.

He did eventually enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts, but his stay there was cut short by a personal dispute with Christian Ruben, the Director.

He also made numerous sketching tours to the Great Hungarian Plain and the region surrounding Lake Balaton.

After 1875, he paid regular visits to the Szolnok Artists' Colony [hu], as well as to Siófok, where he had a villa built in the early 1890s.

It was exhibited at the Paris Salon, together with works by Géza Mészöly, Lajos Deák Ébner and Bertalan Karlovszky, and received good reviews in Le Figaro.