Google pays tribute to Hungarian painter

One of Mihály Munkácsy's paintings inspired Google's Sunday logo. On the opening page of the viewfinder, on February 20, a female figure in the painting The Barrel of Sticks can be seen.

Mihály Munkácsy's tired female figure in a red headscarf from the painting Rőzsehordó rests on the second letter "g" on the Google logo on Sunday. The picture was taken in 1873 and is part of the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery. The Google search engine surprised Hungarian internet users with this gesture because it is one of the most prominent representatives of Hungarian painting, also known abroad. Mihály Munkácsy He was born 167 years ago, on February 1844, 20.

Google has previously provided Hungarian internet users with several special logos. He also remembered, for example, the national holiday on March 15 and the revolution of 23 on October 1956, as well as Dénes Gábor, the inventor of the hologram and the Nobel Prize-winning economist János Harsányi.