Hungarian painter. He studied at Carl Rahl in Vienna and Munich in 1857 where he began painting romantic historic pictures in Piloty's style. Due to his harmonic colouring and well-balanced composition, the illustrations for Goethe's Faust, Schiller's Bandits and Das Lied von der Glocke, brought him a lot of success. In 1870 he was invited to paint the portrait of Emperor Franz Josef in Vienna. After the years 1880-83, when he was the director of the Stuttgart Academy, he returned to Munich where he worked as a teacher in the art school. His major pictures: St. Elizabeth of Hungary (painted in two, almost identical versions), Queen Elisabeth Signs the Death Sentence of Mary Stuart, Venus and Tannhäuser, and Faust and Marguerite. //