János Vaszary

János Miklós Vaszary (30 November 1867 – 19 April 1939) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.

[1] Although he later became involved with Simon Hollósy and the artists' colony in Nagybánya and developed an interest in Hungarian folk art, his primary influences would always be French.

During World War I, he served as a correspondent on the Serbian front and his imagery became more dramatic but, after another visit to Paris, he returned to his Impressionist tendencies.

[1] In 1924, he was one of the founders of the "Képzőművészek Új Társasága [hu]" (New Society of Artists, whose acronym "KÚT" means "fountain" in Hungarian).

[1] When he retired, he had already been suffering from heart disease for several years so, as it worsened, he made plans to settle permanently in the rural village of Tata, where he owned a villa and had spent many summers painting.

Vaszary in 1905
Undated photograph of Vaszary