István Nagy (painter)

István Nagy (28 March 1873 – 13 February 1937) was a Hungarian artist who specialized in landscapes and figure painting.

Discovering that he had artistic talent, and encouraged by Gusztáv Kelety,[1] he went to study at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, where his primary teacher was Bertalan Székely.

During the 1920s, he and József Koszta toured the Great Hungarian Plain, painting landscapes and spending time at the art colony in Kecskemét.

Another exhibition in 1923 first attracted general attention to his work, including praise from the well-known writer Dezső Kosztolányi.

He eventually contracted cerebral myelitis and had a stroke that deprived him of his speech, but he continued to paint until almost his final day.