It is a well-known fact that the Nazarenes earned great fame for their frescos in Villa Bartholdy and Casa Massimo in Rome in the 1810s/20s. One of these artists who participated in this work was Joseph von Führich (1800-1876), who became a professor of “historical composition” at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1840. Both he and his colleague Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862), Alajos Alois Unger’s main teacher, reestablished the fresco technique in Austria and taught it to their students. In Unger’s hometown Győr, a fresco from the first half of the 19th century, which looks as though it had been painted in the 1840s, by a hitherto unknown artist can be found in the so-called chapter house. It is owned by the diocese of Győr. On the upper floor of the house, an illusionist land- and townscape fresco can be found, which strongly resembles Unger’s picture clock in terms of style and colours. Further sources and/or technical art historical, investigation into the matter would be necessary and would through new light into the workings and influence of the late Nazarene and late Romanticist school onto Hungarian art in the 19th century as well as into the Kupelwieser-Führich circle’s activities in Hungary:
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