A magyar szimbolizmus elfeledett festője: Hirémy-Hirschl Adolf (1860–1933) életműve az előző századforduló európai művészeti törekvéseinek kontextusában

Adolf Hirémy-Hirsch, born in Temesvár (now Timișoara, Romania) apparently met the academic expectations and choice of subject, but at the same time he joined the latest trends as one of the most successful Viennese Jewish painters of the fin-de-siècle, an artist of mystical symbolism. The academic prize he was awarded in 1882 provided him the opportunity to travel to Rome, bringing important changes in his life and career. The last 35 years of his life were spent in the “Eternal City”. His works were however captured by his descendants and heirs, so the majority of them became known only in the 1980s. His bequest – documents, letters, photos, drawings – found in the Archivio di Istituto Storico Austriaco, Rome are sources of outstanding importance. Many of his works are in the Daulton Collection, dedicated to the art of German-Austrian Symbolist painters, but further works are kept in famous collections, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago. The writing is an attempted reconstruction of his oeuvre.

Keywords: Symbolism, Temesvár/Timișoara, Rome, Vienna, Künstlerhaus,
Ahasuerus, Pre-Raphaelites