István Szőnyi

István Szőnyi (1894-1960) was a Hungarian painter and printmaker noted for works such as The Bend of the Danube and Zebegény.

Also in 1914, he became the pupil of his first master Károly Ferenczy in both the independent school of Nagybánya and in the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts.

In the summer of 1914, Ferenczy brought his students - including Szőnyi - to the Artists’ Colony of Nagybánya.

As a significant member of the “etching generation”, he contributed to the development of Hungarian graphic art at the beginning of the 1920s.

Szőnyi moved to Zebegény in 1924, participated in the first exhibition of the newly formed KUT, and taught at the Independent School of the City Centre.

His accomplishments included a number of monumental commissions, and publishing a treatise on drawing and painting techniques.