Some of those young painters decided to settle down together in Baia Mare, then called Nagybánya, to work on art. They persuaded Hollósy to join them and founded the Nagybánya Artists Colony, working on naturalism and "plein air" painting. The artists' colony became known later on for influencing the development of twentieth-century Hungarian and Romanian art. Works by each of these important painters is held by the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, which in 2009 opened the exhibit, "Munich in Hungarian, Hungarian Artists in Munich 1850-1914", 2 Oct 2009 - Jan 2010. In addition, in 1966 the museum held a major exhibition of their work: "The Art of Nagybánya. Centennial Exhibition in Celebration of the Artists' Colony in Nagybánya".