Béla Pállik

Béla Pállik (2 February 1845, Nagymihály – 27 July 1908, Budapest) was a Hungarian artist, opera singer and theater director.

He went to Budapest to pursue his art studies and work in the studios of Adolf van der Venne [de], a German painter who was living there at the time.

He spent some time at the Count's estate in Várpalota, doing portraits, some of his first animal paintings and frescoes for the library at Zichy Castle.

In 1867, he was able to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, thanks to a state grant that the Count was able to obtain for him from Prime Minister Gyula Andrássy.

[1] In 1883, encouraged by his friends and family, he sold his studio (which later became a church again) and toured Germany; performing in several major cities, including Weimar, singing opera arias.