♕ Mihály Zichy: 19th Century Erotic Art —Born in Hungary, Mihály Zichy takes us back in time to an entirely different world of erotic art. For the most part Mihaly was a painter, but these lesser known ink drawings are romantic and honest with simple titles like Two Lovers. This collection includes beautiful scenes involving a pregnant couple, two male lovers together and masturbation giving us perspective on the worlds views on eroticism today. —Mihály Zichy was a significant representative of Hungarian romantic painting. During his law studies in Pest from 1842, he attended Jakab Marastonis school as well. In Vienna he was Waldmüllers pupil in 1844. Lifeboat, his first major work, comes from this time. On Waldmüllers recommendation, he became an art teacher in St. Petersburg. He swore allegiance to freedom by painting the portrait of Lajos Batthyány, the first Hungarian prime minister, in 1849. From 1850 onwards, he worked as a retoucher, but he also did pencil drawings, water colours and portraits in oil. The series on the Gatchina hunting ordered by the Russian tsar raised him to a court artist. He founded a society to support painters in need. Autodafé on the horrors of Spanish inquisition was painted in 1868. He travelled around Europe in 1871, and settled down in Paris in 1874/
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