page_title: Henrik Weber
section_title: Return to Hungary and later career
hierarchical_section_title: Henrik Weber / Return to Hungary and later career
caption_attribution_description: English: The bride, Anna Calderoni (Henrik Weber's wife) - by Henrik Weber - 1858
context_page_description: Henrik Wéber known as Henrik Weber was a Hungarian portrait and history painter in the Realism mouvement.
  He is considered as one of the greatest Hungarian painters of the Biedermeier period.
  Henrik Weber was as an excellent portrait painter of his time and a significant figure in Hungarian history painting. Accordingly, he was one of the members of artists working on the creation of national art in the 1830s and 1840s. His most successful paintings are the death of John Hunyadi, the King Matthias and Ilonka Szép, and the King Solomon in prison. He had a great influence on his contemporaries, and his students included Károly Lotz. In the 1860s, he made lithographs presenting Hungarian historical events for the journal “Az Ország Tükre”.
  The Hungarian National Gallery preserves several paintings and drawings of this master of the Biedermeier painting.
context_section_description: After returning home from Italy, Weber settled permanently in Budapest, where he received orders for many portraits and other works from well-known families and personalities. So, he was no longer forced to travel abroad. In 1858 he married Anna Calderoni, his last wife. In the 1860s, he made several lithographs presenting the history of the Huns, the Árpád dynasty and the Hunyadi family for the journal “Az Ország Tükre”. In the midst of success, he became ill in the 1860s and died in Pest on May 14, 1866 at the age of 47.
caption: Henrik Weber's wife (1858)
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