Biography
Painter Ödön Kacziány was born in 1852 in Marosvásárhely. He first studied with Miklós Barabás and then at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1869. Between 1874-76 he trained in Paris, at the École des Beaux-Arts. He went on a study trip to Rome. In 1904, the National Salon awarded him the Ernst Lajos Prize, in 1906 he had a collective exhibition there, and in 1909 he was awarded the Nemes Marcell Prize. He received the Wahrmann Prize and the Society's Grand Prize at the Műcsarnok in 1909. In 1914 he participated with the Venice collection, and in 1920-21 he exhibited his works in Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Düsseldorf. The murals of the Szeged railway station were painted by him. In 1932, the Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle) organized a retrospective exhibition for him. Several of his paintings are preserved by the Hungarian National Gallery.
