67 Notable alumni of
Hungarian University of Fine Arts
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The Hungarian University of Fine Arts is 900th in the world, 318th in Europe, and 7th in Hungary by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 67 notable alumni from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mihály Munkácsy
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- painter
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Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.
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Brassaï
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1918-1919
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- photographerpainterwriterillustratorsculptor
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Brassaï was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the world wars.
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Philip de László
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- paintersculptor
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Philip Alexius László de Lombos MVO RBA, known professionally as Philip de László, was an Anglo-Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages. In 1900, he married the Anglo-Irish socialite Lucy Guinness, and he became a British subject in 1914. László's patrons awarded him numerous honours and medals. He was invested with the Royal Victorian Order by Edward VII in 1909 and, in 1912, he was ennobled by Franz Joseph I of Austria; becoming a part of the Hungarian nobility.
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Győző Szabó
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- 1990-1998 studied graphic design
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- singeractorgraphic designer
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Győző Szabó is a Hungarian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1994.
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George Pal
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- In 1928 studied architecture
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- screenwriterfilm directormanufacturerdirectorproducer
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George Pal was a Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer, principally associated with the fantasy and science-fiction genres. He became an American citizen after emigrating from Europe.
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Zoltán Fábri
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1938
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- theatrical directorscreenwritervisual artistfilm directoractor
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Zoltán Fábri was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His films The Boys of Paul Street (1969) and Hungarians (1978) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1965 film Twenty Hours shared the Grand Prix with War and Peace at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1969 film The Toth Family was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1975 film 141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival, where he won a Special Prize for Directing.
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László Nagy
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1947-1948
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- poettranslator
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László Nagy was a Hungarian poet and translator. He started as a populist poet and in his early youth was a believer in socialist ideology. His oeuvre comprises more than 400 poems and many volumes of translations. He was also a prose writer and graphic artist.
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Victor Ambrus
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- illustratorvisual artist
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Victor Ambrus FSA FRSA was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television archaeology series Time Team, on which he visualised how sites under excavation may have once looked. Ambrus was an Associate of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers. He was also a patron of the Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors up until its merger with the Institute for Archaeologists in 2011.
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Vilmos Aba-Novák
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- 1912-1914 studied drawing
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- printmakerpainter
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Vilmos Aba-Novák was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was an original representative of modern art in his country, and specifically of its modern monumental painting. He was also the celebrated author of frescoes and church murals at Szeged and Budapest, and was officially patronized by the Hungarian nobility.
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György Kepes
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- In 1928 studied art of painting
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- photographervisual artistpedagogueart theoristwriter
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György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1967 he founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.
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Alexandre Trauner
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1924-1929
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- scenographerproduction designer
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Alexandre Trauner was a Hungarian film production designer.
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Joseph Csaky
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1905
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- artistceramicistsculptor
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Joseph Csaky was a Hungarian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, best known for his early participation in the Cubist movement as a sculptor. Csaky was one of the first sculptors in Paris to apply the principles of pictorial Cubism to his art. A pioneer of modern sculpture, Csaky is among the most important sculptors of the early 20th century. He was an active member of the Section d'Or group between 1911 and 1914, and closely associated with Crystal Cubism, Purism, De Stijl, Abstract art, and Art Deco throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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El Kazovsky
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1970-1977
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- artistgraphic artistpoetperformance artistpainter
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El Kazovsky was a Russian-born Hungarian painter, performer, poet and costume designer who was one of the leading Hungarian painters of his time.
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Imre Varga
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1951-1956
- Occupations
- politiciansculptor
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Imre Varga was a Hungarian sculptor, painter, designer and graphic artist. He was regarded as one of Hungary's most important living artists, and he has been called one of the "most skilled sculptors in Hungary."
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Judit Reigl
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1941-1946
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- painterartist
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Judit Reigl was a Hungarian painter who lived in France.
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Rita Ackermann
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1992
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- painter
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Rita Ackermann is a Hungarian-born American artist recognized for her abstract paintings that incorporate human forms, primarily focusing on themes of anthropomorphism and femininity. Her works, often depicting women and allusions to fairy tales, explore the nuances of adolescent disinterest using a unique and expressive style of brushwork. She lives in New York City.
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Gyula László
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1933
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- artistarchaeologisthistorian
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Gyula László was a Hungarian historian, archaeologist and artist.
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Jenő Barcsay
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1924
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- university teacherpaintergraphic designergraphic artist
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Jenő Barcsay was a Hungarian painter with Armenian ancestry.
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Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1905-1908
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- artistsculptor
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Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl was a Hungarian sculptor and artist. His sculptural style integrated elements of realism and academism style mainly engaged in creating portrait busts.
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Lajos Vajda
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1927-1929
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- photographerpainter
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Lajos Vajda was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. From 1927 to 1930 he was a student of István Csók at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
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Mikuláš Galanda
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1914-1916
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- draftspersonpaintergraphic artistillustrator
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Mikuláš Galanda was a painter and illustrator who was one of the most important pioneers and propagators of Slovak modern art. He is buried in the National Cemetery in Martin.
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Péter Forgács
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1971-1971
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- film directornew media artistsculptorfilm producerartist
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Péter Forgács is a Hungarian media artist and independent filmmaker. He is best known for his "Private Hungary" series of award winning films based on home movies from the 1930s and 1960s, which document ordinary lives that were soon to be ruptured by an extraordinary historical trauma that occurs off screen.
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Zoltán Kemény
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1927-1930
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- architectvisual artistpaintersculptor
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Zoltán Kemény was a Hungarian sculptor.
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István Szőnyi
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- graphic artistengraverpoliticianuniversity teacherpainter
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István Szőnyi was a Hungarian painter and printmaker noted for works such as The Bend of the Danube and Zebegény. He and his family rescued Jews during the Holocaust. Hence they were declared Righteous Among the Nations on October 2, 1984. István Szőnyi was one of the most gifted members of the Nagybánya group.
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Béla Kondor
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1951-1956
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- photographerpainterpoetgraphic artist
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Béla Kondor was a Hungarian painter, prose writer, poet, photographer, and avant-garde graphic artist.
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Béla Iványi-Grünwald
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1886
- Occupations
- painter
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Béla Iványi-Grünwald was a Hungarian painter, a leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony and founder of the Kecskemét artists' colony.
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Dóra Maurer
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- artistphotographerprintmakerpainterexhibition curator
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Dóra Maurer is a Hungarian visual artist whose work has spanned a 50-year career. She works in almost every medium, from film and photography, to painting, performance, and sculpture. Principally achieving recognition in the 1970s with avant-garde work, Maurer has developed her art career from works with contemporary and modern influences that have been shown worldwide. Her art is based on mathematical and complex system processes. Most of Maurer's work follows the theme of showing options to the viewer and what the viewer can do with those options. Many of her works break down simple actions so the viewer can really view the piece as movement, not a photograph of movement. Dóra Maurer has in addition been a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Budapest and a curator.
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János Thorma
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1887-1889
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- painter
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János Thorma was a Hungarian painter. A representative figure of the Nagybánya artists' colony, which started in 1896, in Nagybánya, Austria-Hungary (today Baia Mare, Romania), he moved through different styles, shifted from the naturalism that was the aesthetic of the colony, to historical subjects, to romantic realism and to a Post-Impressionism style. His work is held by the Hungarian National Gallery, the Thorma János Múzeum, regional museums and private collectors.
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Farkas Molnár
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- 1915-1917 studied art of painting
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- architectpaintergraphic designergraphic artist
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Farkas "Wolfgang" Ferenc Molnár was a Hungarian architect, painter, essayist, and graphic artist. He is associated with the first generation of Bauhaus movement, and was active in Budapest.
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István Nagy
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1899
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- painter
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István Nagy was a Hungarian artist who specialized in landscapes and figure painting.
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Ilona Keserü
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- 1952-1958 studied fresco painting and art of painting
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- graphic artistpainter
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Ilona Keserü is a Hungarian painter, professor emerita, Kossuth Prize winner.
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Americo Makk
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1949
- Occupations
- painter
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Americo Makk was a painter and portrait artist from Hungary. In 1962, he emigrated to the United States with his family to escape the communist movement in Hungary. His paintings include historical and ecclesiastical portraits and murals, including portraits of two United States Presidents, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, as well as notable figures such as Edward Teller, Eva Gabor, Barbara Sinatra, Ray Price, and Barbara Carrera.
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Miloš Alexander Bazovský
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- graphic artistpainter
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Miloš Alexander Bazovský was a Slovak painter.
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Octavian Smigelschi
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- painter
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Octavian or Octav Smigelschi was an Austro-Hungarian painter and printmaker, one of the leading culturally Romanian artists in his native Transylvania. Of mixed Polish, Aromanian, and possibly Ruthenian, background, he identified mainly with the Romanian-speaking Greek-Catholics, although some of his most important work was also done for the rival Romanian Orthodox Church. Smigelschi studied under Bertalan Székely at the Drawing School and Art Teachers' College in Budapest, becoming familiar with the historicist trend in contemporary Hungarian art. While working on and off at high schools in Upper Hungary and Transylvania, he experimented with borrowings from ancient Romanian handicrafts. Smigelschi's European journeys with Arthur Coulin took him to Cervara di Roma, where he studied Renaissance art, while moving away from academic art and into Symbolism and Art Nouveau.
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Orshi Drozdik
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1970-1977
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- graphic designerartistgraphic artistinstallation artistuniversity teacher
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Orshi Drozdik is a feminist visual artist based in New York City. Her work consists of drawings, paintings, photographs, etchings, performances, videos, sculptures, installations, academic writings and fiction, that explore connected themes, sometimes over an extended period. Through her work, organized into several topics, she explores themes that undermine the traditional and erotic representation of women: Individual Mythologies, Adventure in Tecnos Dystopium, and Manufacturing the Self. She is influenced by Valéria Dienes, János Zsilka, Susan Sontag, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Luce Irigaray, Walter Benjamin, and Michel Foucault, among others. Her working method: critical analysis of meaning, influenced her contemporaries, her students and later generations of women artists. The art historian László Beke noted in an interview realized by Kata Krasznahorkai in 2017 that "Orsolya Drozdik (Orshi Drozdik) is the first feminist artist in Hungary".
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Ivan Tabaković
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- draftspersonceramicistpaintersculptor
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Ivan Tabaković was an Austro-Hungarian-born Serbian painter.
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Franz Eisenhut
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- painterdraftsperson
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Franz Eisenhut was a prominent Danube Swabian Realist and Orientalist painter. He is considered one of Austria-Hungary's greatest academic painters in the second half of the 19th century. His most famous and recognizable paintings include Death of Gül Baba, Battle of Zenta, Slave trade and Cock fighting and many other, depicting mostly motifs from the Orient. His works can be found in many European museums across the continent.
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Pál Fried
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- graphic designerpainter
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Pál Fried was a Hungarian artist best known for his eroticized paintings of female dancers and nudes.
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Líviusz Gyulai
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1962
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- graphic artistpaintergraphic designerillustratoranimator
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Líviusz Gyulai was a Hungarian graphic artist, printmaker, illustrator.
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Győző Czigler
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- school teacherarchitect
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Győző Czigler was a Hungarian architect and academic.
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István Réti
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1890
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- graphic artistpaintergraphic designerart historianuniversity teacher
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István Réti was a Hungarian painter, professor, art historian and leading member, as well as a founder and theoretician, of the Nagybánya artists' colony, located in what is present-day Baia Mare, Romania. In addition, he served as president of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (1927–1931) and (1932–1935).
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Béla Uitz
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1908-1911
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- graphic artistpaintergraphic designer
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Béla Uitz was a Hungarian painter and communist activist.
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Béla Nagy Abodi
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1941
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- painter
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Béla Nagy Abodi was a Hungarian painter, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca. He studied in the class of Camil Ressu at the Academia de Belle-Arte in Bucharest, and then went to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, as a student of István Szőnyi. He served for 5 years in the Hungarian army, and became a war prisoner in USSR. He worked as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca.
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Anton Prinner
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- ceramicistpainterwriterprintmakersculptor
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Anton Prinner was a Hungarian, naturalized French painter, engraver and sculptor. Born Anna Prinner in Budapest, Prinner began using the first name Anton when he moved to France in 1928.
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Károly Patkó
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1914-1923
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- graphic artistpainter
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Karoly Patko was a twentieth century Hungarian painter and copper engraver, noted for his nude paintings in a plastic presentation.
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Ivan Radović
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1917-1919
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- art criticpaintertennis player
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Ivan Radović was a Serbian-Yugoslav tennis player and painter.
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András Beck
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1929-1933
- Occupations
- medalistsculptor
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András Beck was a Hungarian sculptor. He was noted for his symbolic and expressionist bronze statuettes and portrait busts.
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Dezső Ákos Hamza
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1924
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- screenwriterfilm directorpainterjournalistsculptor
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Dezső Ákos Hamza was a Hungarian film director. He directed more than ten films from 1941 to 1956.
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Károly Klimó
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1956-1962
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- university teachervisual artistpaintergraphic artist
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Károly Klimó is a Hungarian artist, one of the best known Hungarian artists of the present day. He is a non-figurative artist, member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.
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István Kiss
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1953
- Occupations
- sculptor
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István Kiss was a Hungarian sculptor and a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Central Committee between 1975 and 1989.
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Károly Antal
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1928-1934
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- sculptor
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Károly Antal was a twentieth century Hungarian sculptor. His sculptural style reflected neoclassicism style.
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József Breznay
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1934-1939
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- painter
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József Breznay was a Hungarian painter.
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Zeev Kun
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- painter
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Zeev Kun was an Israeli painter of Hungarian origin. He is the father of the artist Shay Kun.
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Miklós Kiss
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 2001
- Occupations
- designer
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kissmiklos is a Hungarian designer and visual artist known for incorporating elements of graphic design, design, fine art and architecture in his work. His art is characterized by a strong conceptual approach and an outstandingly aesthetic quality. In his branding and graphic designs, he has developed his unmistakably clean and distinctive style.
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Lajos Csordák
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- art educatorpainterteacher
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Lajos Csordák was a Hungarian painter.
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Louis Tinayre
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- printmakerpainterillustrator
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Louis Tinayre was a French illustrator and painter. He is remembered for his panoramas and dioramas of Madagascar, and for his paintings of Albert I, Prince of Monaco hunting.
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Tihamér Margitay
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1874-1879
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- painterartist
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Tihamér Margitay was a Hungarian painter. He was born in Jenke, Austria-Hungary, (today Jenkovice, Slovakia). He painted anecdotic, so-called "parlour pictures", in the style of Jules Bastien-Lepage.
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László László Révész
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1977-1981
- Occupations
- performance artistpainterauthor
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László László Révész was a Hungarian painter and performance artist. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1981 and an MA in animation from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest in 1986. Révész defended his DLA dissertation "Pictorial narrative in the Fine Arts" in 2010.
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Ragnhild Butenschøn
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- sculptor
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Ragnhild Butenschøn, née Jakhelln was a Norwegian sculptor. She was especially known for her church art.
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Barbara Baska
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- cinematographer
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Barbara Baska is a graphic designer and cinematographer.
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Balázs Diószegi
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1933-1938
- Occupations
- painter
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Balázs Diószegi was a Hungarian painter and nobleman.
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Félix Bódog Widder
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1892-1896
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Félix Bódog Widder was a Hungarian painter, graphic designer and teacher.
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Nándor Balaskó
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1940-1943
- Occupations
- sculptorlecturer
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Nándor Balaskó was a sculptor from Romania.
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Lilla Bodor
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 2007
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Lilla Bodor is a Hungarian painter.
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Lajos Csontó
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- graphic artistartist
- Biography
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Lajos Csontó is a Hungarian artist.
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Ödön Vaszkó
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- painter
- Biography
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Ödön Vaszkó was a Hungarian painter.
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Suzanne Balkanyi
- Enrolled in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts
- Studied in 1947
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Suzanne Balkanyi was a French-Hungarian artist, known particularly for her humorous etchings of Paris street scenes. After narrowly escaping transportation to Auschwitz in 1944, she left Hungary in 1947 to live in Paris, where she worked until her death.
