Károly Miksa Reissmann

Art Nouveau on Paper

Painter. He began his art education in Leipzig and Munich, then attended the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna, followed by the Academy of Applied Arts in Berlin. At the invitation of the court painter and entrepreneur Robert Scholtz, he visited Budapest in 1887. He moved to Budapest in 1892. He played a significant role in the furnishing and interior decoration of many important public buildings and city palaces in Budapest. He designed, and to an extent executed, the decoration of the ’’Romanesque Hall” of the Museum of Fine Arts and of a number of rooms in the Hungarian Parliament.

Design - for wall decoration above a door
Design - for wall decoration above a door
Design - for ceiling decoration with Hungarian motifs
Design - for ceiling decoration with Hungarian motifs
Design - for ceiling decoration with Hungarian motifs
Design - for ceiling decoration of a boy room
Sketch book - Sketch book with Hungarian ornaments (112 pages)