When I first came to Budapest, I noticed the numerous plates commemorating writers, actors, scientists, politicians, historical figures, and also painters. Plates saying “here lived…”, but what did they actually paint? Making their art visible on the urban grid is fascinating. How many of them knew each other, visited each other? An artist being anchored in a concrete geographical location has become rarer in our times. People move around more, and places matter less. Some people can only be " located" on the internet.
The large majority of works that one discovers here is from between 1930 and 1970. It was a bright epoque, at least so it seems, despite World War II. Much summer, water, sunshine, and Balaton. Altogether, the paintings appear luminous, which adds a little bit of color and light to Budapest. So, go ahead and take a walk...
Budapest 2026
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List of Painters and "Statistics"
(The 13th district holds the record with 31 plaques; in the 2nd district there are none)
District V
Lampért Jósef Nemes, Alkotmany utca 9, Budapest 1055
Now Budapest University of Economics and Business, Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
Landscape, 1917
Self-portrait, 1911
Zoltan Nuridsány, Alkotmány utca 27, Budapest 1055
Merengö,
Contemplative
Rudolf Lang, Falk Miksa utca 15, Budapest 1055
Towers
Small Town II
Affair
Béla Kondor, Bécsi utca 1, Budapest 1052
Tengeresz alma kicsi
Still life, 1962
Királyok, Hátoldalon ceruza tanulmány, Kings, Pencil drawing on the back, 1963
Zelma Kapuváry, Erzsébet tér 3, Budapest 1051
Rome 1937
A Bohémélet utazó díszlete - rajza. Drawing of the traveling set of La Bohème
Kató Lukáts, Petöfi Tér 3-5, Budapest 1052
Iványi-Grünwald Béla (1867-1940), Deák Ferenc utca 23, Budapest 1052
Flower Still Life
After the Storm, 1940
Balaton
Jenő Medveczky (1902-1969), Deák Ferenc utca 23, Budapest 1052
Sárospataki részlet, 1956.
Detail from Sarospatak
Hölgy kutyával, woman with dog
Strandolók, Beachgoers
János Kmetty (1889-1979), Deák Ferenc utca 23, Budapest 1052
Sárga falú ház, House with yellow walls
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Self-portrait, 1917
Walking on the River Bank (Baia Mare), 1930
Bernáth Aurél, Stollár Béla utca 4, Budapest 1054
Brissago (Lago Maggiore Szilasiék kertjéből), 1963
Reggel (Ablak) 1927
Téren festmény
District XIII
Eva Káplár, Budai Nagy Antal utca 5, Budapest 1137
Vízpart
Férfi páfránnyal, 1988
Derengés (Tremor)
Lilla Rába, Jaszai Mari Tér 5, Budapest 1137
Extract
Alakok, Figures
Margit Kovács, Pozsonyi utca 1, Budapest 1137
Margit Kovács Museum Szentendreargit Kovzs Museum Szentendregit Kovács Museum Szentendreargit Kovzs Museum Szentendre
Ceramic relief in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
Ceramic plaque by in Vármegye street, Budapest 2
Róbert Muray, Visegrádi utca 23, Budapest 1136
Piroska Szántó, Visegrádi utca 5a, Budapest 1136
Lovers (Bone Music)
Hillside
Evening Lights
Ferenc Jeckel, Kresz Géza utca 8, Budapest 1132
Sheppards
Ballerina
Blue-yellow flowers, 2004
Gyula Hincz, Bulcsu utca 18, Budapest 1134
Man and Machine
Múzsák, Muses
Magány 1, Solitude 1
Gyula Pap, Bulcsu utca 18, Budapest 1134
Seven branch Bauhaus Menorah at the Jewish Museum in New York
Zoltán Angyalföldi-Szabó, Tomori utca 5, Budapest 1131
Painter and Muse
Mozaik - Anyák gyerekekkel, Mothers with children
Szüretelő lányok. Harvest girls
Viktor Madarász, Madarász Viktor utca 1, Budapest 1131
Mourning László Hunyadi, 1859
Mourning László Hunyadi, 1859
King Poděbrady of Bohemia introduces the delegation of Hungarian nobles to Matthias1873
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Ferenc Redő and Rozália Vörös, Csanády utca 5, Budapest 1132
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Rozália Vörös, Farm in Szolnok, 1935
Ferenc Redö, Dunántúl, South of the Danube
Ferenc Redö, Budapest, Polychrome wool tapestry
Magyla köz, District 13 (7 painters)
Máglya köz in Angyalföld, is part of the Fiastyúk utca housing estate, where numerous painters, sculptors and art historians lived and worked.
Ádám Würtz, Máglya köz 4, Budapest 1139
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Prince Bluebeard Castle
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Animals of the forests and field, puzzle
Tale and mythology 1987-88
Ignác Kokas, Máglya köz 3, Budapest 1139
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Tavasz a kis dombon, Spring on the little hill
Útmenti táj, Roadside landscape
Dombok mögül a nap, The sun behind the hills
Lajos Szentiványi, Máglya köz 2, Budapest 1139
Landscape in southern France
Tavaszi csirkeetetés, Chicken breeding in Spring
Still life
János Duschanek, Máglya köz 2, Budapest 1139
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Mysterious villa, 1980
Lakside
Delvaux-like surrealism: Master and Follower
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Ferenc Kovács, Máglya köz 4, Budapest 1139
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Dráva utca 12, Budapest 1133
(5 painters)
Tibor Csernus, Dráva utca12, Budapest 1133
Cosmic Space, 1960s
Café Lotto, 1995
Esau sells his birthright , 1993
Ödön Márffy, Dráva utca12, Budapest 1133
Forest Path
In the Garden
Old Custom House at Vác
Amrita Sher-Gil, Szillágyi Dezö tér 4, Budapest 1011
Hungarian–Indian painter. Her father was Indian, her mother Hungarian. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a pioneer in modern Indian art.
Village group 1938
Group of Three Girls
Bride's Toilet
Vilmos Aba-Novák, Zsolt utca 7, Budapest 1016
Dinner, 1932
Itáliai kikötő, Italian port
Self-portrait
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Mátyás Réti, Márvány utca 1b, Budapest 1012
Afternoon walk
Szentendre
György Vastagh, Tigris utca 55, Budapest 1016
Girl with sunflower
Dinner is ready
Gypsies
District III
István Bán, Bécsi út 95, Budapest 1034
Textile artist
Busójárás
Round dance
Brutus Sárdy, Dósa utca 17, Budapest 1031
Automn Landscape 1936
Woman in a Yeallow Dress
Summer Park
Péter Barba, Folyamőr utca 2, Budapest 1033
Self-portrait, 1969
District IV
Celesztin Pállya, Árpád út 66, Budapest 1042
Carriage in the village
Hungarian girl
District VI
Rudolf Bér, Nagymező 8, Budapest 1065
Tengerparti házak, Beach houses, 1970s
Italian Landscape
Vitorlások, Sailingboats, 1990
Molnár Géza Szegedi, Nagymező 8, Budapest 1065
Enytrance to Buda Castle
Fürdésre készülve vízparti táj, Preparing for a swim, waterfront landscape
Vízpart tavasszal, Waterfront in SpringWaterfront in spring, Waterfront in Sprin
Arpad Illes, Kiraly utca 108, Budapest 1068
Artists, 1970
Változat a „tojás” témára,
Variation of the theme of the egg, 1972
Lajos Márk, Varosligeti fasor 4-6, Budapest 1068
Párizsi háztetők (Kilátás a műteremből), Rooftops of Paris (View from the Studio), 1892
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You Lady (The Lipstick)
Funeral
Margit Gráber, Andrássy út 85, Budapest 1061
Still Life, 1929
Szoba virágokkal és biedermeier bútorokkal, Room with flowers and Biedermeier furniture
Építkezés, Contruction, 1930
Jenő Barcsay, Andrássy út 89, Budapest 1061
Szentendrei utcarészlet, Szendendre Street
Mosaik plan, 1963
Housewalls
Nándor Lajos Varga, Andrássy út 84, Budapest 1061
Balatoni nádas, Balaton reeds
Siófoki part, Siófok beach
Portrait of a woman
Gyula Derkovits, Hunyadi tér 10, Budapest 1067
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Végzés, Injunction
Halárus, Fish seller_1930
Csónakázók, Boaters, 1925
District VIII
István Szőni, Baross utca 21/Szentkirályi utca 45, Budapest 1088
Zöld cserépkályha
Zebegényi részlet (Dunakanyar), detail, Dunabend, 1940
Nyári nap a Duna-parton (Itatás a zebegényi Dunánál), Summer Day on the Danube Bank (Drinking at the Danube in Zebegény), 1930
Móricz Gábor, Százados utca 4, Budapest 1087
József Schneider, Kazinczy utca 55, Budapest 1075
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Eric Vogel, Marek József utca 4, Budapest 1078
Jelmezterv a Maya című operetthez. Budai Parkszínpad, 1967,
Costume design for the operetta Maya. Buda Park Stage, 1967.
Casino fatabla
A Pálmai cukrászdában mulató színészek című. Actors having fun in the Pálmai pastry shop
District XI
Ákos Ecsődi, Bartók Béla út 51, Budapest 1117
The Budapest Southern Railway intersection, 1932
Lady with a Pearls, 1935
Parkak, 1933
Károly Miksa Reissmann, Bartók Béla út 78, Budapest 1114
Rocky landscape with hunters
Aqua Marcia Roma
Landscape motif, gouache on paper
Antal Fery, Fehérvári utca 7, Budapest 1114
Károly Koffán, Villányi út 38, Budapest 1118
1947
1971
Gizella Barabás Reissmann, Bartók Béla út 78, Budapest 1114
Roma, Via Appia Antica
Fortress on the Hill, 1958
Pál C. Molnár, Ménesi út 65, Budapest 1118
Italian Landscape
Pál Miháltz, Lágymányosi utca 17a, Budapest 1111
Riverside, 1983
Spot rhythm 1973
Balatonszárszó 1970
Fülöp László (1869 - 1937), Philip Alexius László de Lombos, Philip de László, Zichy Géza utca 10, Budapest 1146. Anglo-Hungarian painter known for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages.
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Lucy
Duchess of York
Géza Bene, Telepes utca 32, Budapest 1147
Village Street, 1949
Abstract scape
Hillside with colorful trees, 1956
District IX
Andras Bánsági, Sobieski János utca 40, Budapest 1096
Viragos gesztenyefak metszet
Flowering chestnut tree engraving
Metszet taban kömüves utcai lepcsö.
Section of a stairs made of stoneng taban Komuves street leprecha
Tamás Péli, Lónyai utca13b, Budapest. Important figure in Hungarian Roma art.
Portraits and birds
Sighisoara (1975). Medieval citadel in Transylvania, Romania, renowned as the 1431 birthplace of Vlad the Impaler,
District X
József Litkei, Rákász utca 5, Budapest 1106
Coast of the Balaton lake
Simon Hollósy, Hollósy Simon utca 1, Budapest 1126
Peasant yard with a cart, 1912
Az ország bajai, The country's troubles
Corn Huskers 1885
Ödön Márfy, Ödön Márfy utca 1, Budapest 1125
On the Terrace (Seaside Terrace with Figures), 1931
Female Nude in Armchair, 1936
Hillside Village, around 1912
DISTRICT XVI
Károly Mühlbeck, Budapesti út 41, Budapest 1162
Three Hungarian Kings
Uncle Mühlbeck's Picture Book
District XVIII
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Kondor Béla Alley 10, Budapest 1181
Roman bridge in Mostar
The electricity work of Jajce at night
Lonely cedar
District XIX
János Nagy Balogh, Ady Endre út 43, Budapest 1191. "Proletarian artist"
District XXI
District XXI
Géza Maroti, Árpád utca 1, Budapest 1215. Made sculptures on Franz Liszt Academy and Gresham Palace. Also made interior design and sculpture works for the Mexican Opera and National Theater. Wrote a six-hundred-page study on the reconstruction of Atlantis.
Detail of the proscenium arch (ca. 1908). Palace of Fine Arts Theater, Mexico City.
Plan of Atlantis mock-up