Géza Mészöly (painter)

Géza Mészöly (18 May 1844, Sárbogárd - November 12 1887, Jobbágyi, Nógrád County) was a Hungarian landscape painter.

After attending the public schools in his hometown and in Hajdúszoboszló, he continued his education at the Calvinist college in Debrecen.

During his time in school, he sketched and painted as a pastime, attracting the attention of the art teacher, who encouraged him to follow an artistic career.

His parents, however, preferred a legal career and, in 1866, he entered Budapest University with that goal in mind.

[1] In 1867, the painter Antal Ligeti, who was serving as curator of the Hungarian National Museum, noticed Mészöly copying works in the gallery and, impressed by his talent, helped him to enter the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied with Robert Russ and Albert Zimmermann.