Ungern. Alt- Ofen

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Article ID EUH2877

Title

Ungern. Alt- Ofen

Description

View of the city Ofen ( Budapest) and the river Danube.

Year

ca. 1830

Artist

Kunike (1777-1838)

Adolf Kunike was a student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1804. From 1808 to 1810 he studied history painting in Rome. In 1816 Kunike made contact with Alois Senefelder in Munich. In 1817 he opened his own lithographic institute in Vienna. Initially active as an artist herself, Kunike later limited herself to lithographic reproduction and the management of her own company, which became the foster home of artist's lithography, especially portraits and landscapes. He published series works, the most important of which are the two hundred and sixty Danube views according to the course of the Danube river from its origin to its outflow into the Black Sea ... which Kunike published in three editions in 1820, 1824, 1826. The majority of the pictures appearing in this work are by Jakob Alt.

Historical Description

The Hungarians, who later became Christianized and settled, lived in villages with churches and farmed and raised cattle. Pest became more and more important in the center of important traffic routes. Already at this time there was a lively ferry traffic across the Danube (around today's Elisabeth Bridge) to the opposite Buda. With the coronation of Stephen I around 1000 as the first king of Hungary, the Hungarians expanded their dominance. The Mongol invasion in 1241 almost completely destroyed the Battle of Muhi. The royal residence was first relocated to Visegrád. The city was renewed in 1308 and capital of the kingdom in 1361. A peasant uprising took place in 1514. From 1446 the Ottomans repeatedly attacked Hungary, which culminated in the occupation of most of the country. So Pest fell in 1526 and Buda protected by the castle, 15 years later. The capital of the still unoccupied Hungary, which consisted almost entirely of Upper Hungary (essentially the area of today's Slovakia), was from 1536 to 1784 Bratislava (Bratislava). While Buda became the seat of a Turkish pasha, Pest received little attention. Finally, the Habsburgs, who had been Kings of Hungary since 1526, succeeded in driving out the Ottomans and restoring Hungary. Pest was the seat of the administrative administration of the kingdom since 1723. One of the main reasons for the boom in Budapest was the existence of a bridge in summer, which consisted of boats attached to each other. The chain bridge (Hungarian Széchenyi Lánchíd) spans the Danube here in Budapest. It was built between 1839 and 1849 as the first fixed bridge at the suggestion of the Hungarian reformer Count István Széchenyi.The merging of Buda, Óbuda and Pest had already been enacted under the Hungarian revolutionary government in 1849.

Dimensions (cm)28,5 x 35
ConditionVery good
Coloringoriginal colored
TechniqueLithography

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