Gustav Friedrich Keleti

The recorded working language is German and Hungarian. The field of work recorded is art and painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava. Employment is recorded with Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Work by Gustav Friedrich Keleti is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, Hungarian National Gallery, Bratislava City Gallery and East Slovak Gallery.

His father, Károly Klette, was a court painter and drawing instructor for Archduke Joseph. In 1861, when 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 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 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 the disease in 1902.

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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1834 at Bratislava. Institutional cataloguing adds that gustav Friedrich Keleti died in 1902 at Budapest. Institutional cataloguing adds that gustav Friedrich Keleti is recorded at birth as Klette Gusztáv.