Tivadar Alconiere
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Tivadar Cohn Hermann Alconiere was a 19th century Austro-Hungarian painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

. Cohn Hermann was his original family name.

He was born in Mattersburg
Mattersburg
Mattersburg is a town in Burgenland, Austria. It is the administrative center of the District of Mattersburg and home to a Bundesliga football team, SV Mattersburg.- Location :...

 and began studying art in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 in 1812. Born to Jewish parents, he converted to Catholicism
Catholicism
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 in order to pursue a career in art, and adopted the surname Alconiere. He made a pilgrimage
Pilgrimage
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 to Rome
Rome
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 in the 1830s, where he spent 13 years pursuing art studies. He returned to Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 in the 1840s and painted in the towns of Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár is a city in central Hungary and is the 9th largest in the country. Located around southwest of Budapest. It is inhabited by 101,973 people , with 136,995 in the Székesfehérvár Subregion. The city is the centre of Fejér county and the regional centre of Central Transdanubia...

, Pápa
Pápa
Pápa is a historical city in Veszprém county, Hungary, located close to the northern edge of the Bakony Hills, and noted for its baroque architecture. With its 33,000 inhabitants, it is the cultural, economic and tourism centre of the region....

 and Pest until the 1850s when he moved back to Vienna
Vienna
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. He then dedicated his life entirely to the pursuit of his religion and died as a cleric in a monastery
Monastery
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 at Vienna
Vienna
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.

Alconiere painted mainly portraits such as Count László Károlyi on horseback.
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