György Kepes

Visual Artist

1906 – 2001

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Who was György Kepes?

György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. In 1967 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he taught until his retirement in 1974.

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Born
Oct 4, 1906
Lőrinci
Also known as
  • Gyorgy Kepes
Nationality
  • Hungary
Died
Dec 29, 2001

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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