Géza Peske

Géza Peske
Carl Teufel: Géza Peske in his Studio
Born	(1859-01-22)22 January 1859 Kelecsény (present-day Slovakia)
Died	(1934-05-18)18 May 1934 Bodajk, Hungary
Known for	Painting, illustration
Movement	genre works

The native form of this personal name is Peske Géza. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Géza Peske (1859–1934) was a Hungarian painter.

He was born in Kelecsény Austria-Hungary. He studied under Gyula Benczúr and Ludwig von Löfftz at the Academy of Munich. He lived in Budapest since 1894. His most famous pictures genre works with children there are at Hungarian National Gallery. He died and buried in Bodajk, Hungary, where a street bears his name.

Selected paintings

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  Little Gardener
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  Playing Children
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  Monor Landscape (1920)
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  Two Boys with Slingshot on the Summer-meadow
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  Potato-eaters
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  Little Girl with Goat

Source

• Art Encyclopaedia, Budapest, 1980 (Hungarian: Művészeti Lexikon, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980)