Konstantin Danil - Legacy

Legacy

He will be remembered as a master of technique, and his portraits -- in the hundreds -- reveal an extraordinary study into into charaters of his subjects. Nevertheless, for some time after his death his name was almost forgotten by the public, and it is only in the twentieth century that he has been conceded the position amopng the masters of the modern Serbian school which is his due. Konstantin Danil, by virtue of his early art work in Temișvar, a multi-ethnic city (composed of Romanians, Germans, Hungarians and Serbs), is also claimed by three other nations, Romania, Austria and Hungary, as their own.

Read more about this topic:  Konstantin Danil

Famous quotes containing the word legacy:

    What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
    Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)