Jozef Theodor Mousson

Place: Hőgyész

Born: 1887

Death: 1946

Biography:

Jozef Teodor Mousson was a Slovak Impressionist painter. He was born on 15 December 1887 in Hőgyész, Hungary. Between 1905-1909, he studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. He married Irena Grundová in 1910 and moved to Michalovce, Slovakia in 1911, where he stayed for another 33 years. He is often referred to as 'the painter of the Zemplín sun and people'. In 1942, he suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage and became paralyzed. In 1946, he moved to Bratislava and later to his son in Trenčín, where he died on 6 November 1946.