Sándor Bihari

In 1874, he moved to Budapest, where he did retouching at a photography studio while attending a drawing school operated by Bertalan Székely.

At first he had to find work as a retoucher again and might have remained in that position, had he not received a gift of 600 Forints from Székely, which enabled him to quit his job and enter the Academy.

[1] He returned to his hometown, where he spent three years struggling as a portrait painter until a benefactor who liked his work provided the means for him to study in Paris.

He travelled there in 1883, where he studied at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens[1] and improved his technique by copying the Old Masters at the Louvre.

Upon returning to Hungary, he settled in Szolnok, a popular gathering place for painters, and would later become one of the founders of an art colony there.