János Thorma

János Thorma (24 April 1870 – 5 December 1937) was a Hungarian The family moved to Nagybánya when the youth was 14. He began to study art at Bertalan Székely's drawing school.

His first paintings were naturalistic, and an early inspiration was Jules Bastien-Lepage. Thorma used the artist's most popular work, the Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, in 1892 as a model in his own painting of Irén Biltz. Thorma's painting had the characteristic atmosphere of Art Nouveau.

After the Treaty of Trianon (4 June 1920), when the Nagybánya region was incorporated to the Kingdom of Romania, only Thorma remained in the town; the other Hungarian painters left. The government encouraged him to continue the naturalistic "official Nagybánya school", although his own work had developed in quite different ways. 1966, The Art of Nagybánya. Centennial Exhibition in Celebration of the Artists' Colony in Nagybánya. The Thorma János Múzeum was established for his work in his home town of Kiskunhalas, Hungary.