Gusztáv Frigyes Kelety , originally Klette (13 December 1834, in Pozsony – 2 September 1902, in Budapest ) was a Hungarian painter, graphic artist and art critic.
6-514: Keleti is the Hungarian word for east . It is used as a surname and then may refer to: Ágnes Keleti (born 1921), Hungarian-Israeli Olympic champion artistic gymnast Márton Keleti (1905–1973), Hungarian film director Gusztáv Kelety (1834–1902), Hungarian painter and art critic György Keleti (born 1946), Hungarian politician See also [ edit ] Budapest Keleti railway station ,
12-563: A Hungarian title of nobility was granted, the family name was changed to Kelety. Rather than follow his father's profession, Gusztáv originally trained in Vienna to be a lawyer, although he also took lessons from Carl Rahl . Upon the recommendation of his professor, Tivadar Pauler , he became a tutor to Loránd Eötvös , the son of Baron József Eötvös . That family's influence would later prove significant to his career. Soon, his law studies became secondary to his art studies and he spent some time at
18-696: A uniform system be established; including a "pre-art" school. The proposal was accepted and the "Hungarian Royal National School of Arts and Crafts" (now the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design ) was launched in 1880. Kelety became the first Director. From the mid-1860s, he wrote art reviews of a mostly conservative nature, although he was among the first to notice the talents of many painters who later became well-known, such as István Nagy , Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry , Mihály Munkácsy and Pál Szinyei Merse . In his later years, he became ill with tuberculosis and attempted suicide shortly before dying of
24-590: The Academy of Fine Arts Munich , where he studied with Johann Fischbach , Friedrich Voltz and Eduard Schleich . In 1871, Baron Eötvös, who was then the Minister of Education , sent Kelety on a study tour to investigate how art instruction was conducted in other countries. He travelled to France, Belgium and Germany and produced a report titled The Function of Art Education in Our Country and Abroad , which recommended that
30-589: The east station, the largest among the three main railway stations in Budapest Keleti pályaudvar (Budapest Metro) , station of the M2 (East-West) line of the Budapest Metro [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Keleti . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to
36-421: The link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keleti&oldid=859198078 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Guszt%C3%A1v Kelety His father, Károly Klette , was a court painter and drawing instructor for Archduke Joseph . In 1861, when
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