Mór Than

The native form of this personal name is Than Mór. This article uses the Western name order.

Mór Than Than Mór
Contemporaneous etching of Mör Than, by Károly Rusz
Birth name	Than Mór
Born	June 19, 1828(1828-06-19)
Died	March 11, 1899(1899-03-11) (aged 70)
Nationality	Hungarian
Influenced by	Miklós Barabás, Károly Lotz, Karl Rahl

Mór Than (Bečej, 19 June 1828 ndash; 11 March 1899) was a Hungarian painter.

Born at Bečej, he was educated in Italy and Vienna beside his cooperation with similar famous painters in his homeland. He worked in a realistic – pre-impressionist style. His subjects were mostly historic events and portraits but also mythological or fantasy themes. His painted frescos which decorate several prominent public buildings in Budapest.

Mór Than also designed the first Hungarian postage stamp in 1848,^[1] but it was never used because Hungary remained part of the Austrian Empire in that time, after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

References

1. ^ Visnyovszki, Gábor (1996). Stamps. Budapest: Állami Nyomda. p. 85. 

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  The Feast of Attila by Mór Than (1870), at the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

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  Postage stamp design, 1848

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Date of birth	19 June 1828
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Date of death	11 March 1899
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