Nándor Katona
Katona Nándor • Illustration — Nándor Katona, probable self-portrait. Katona Nándor or Nathan Ferdinand Kleinberger (12 September 1864 Szepesófalu (Spišská Stará Ves), Kingdom of Hungary now Slovakia – 1 August 1932, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian Jewish painter. One of seven children of a dismally poor Jewish family he was discovered as a prodigy, brought up and instructed in painting by László Mednyánszky.
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Nándor Katona
reproduced in Anna Ondrušeková Ferdinand Katona 1864 – 1932. Tatranská Galéria, Poprad, 2004. · self portrait · Public domain
- Born
- 1864 · Spišská Stará Ves.
- Died
- 1932 · Budapest District VII.
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- painting
- Languages
- Hungarian · Slovak
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Katona Nándor • Illustration — Nándor Katona, probable self-portrait. Katona Nándor or Nathan Ferdinand Kleinberger (12 September 1864 Szepesófalu (Spišská Stará Ves), Kingdom of Hungary now Slovakia – 1 August 1932, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian Jewish painter. One of seven children of a dismally poor Jewish family he was discovered as a prodigy, brought up and instructed in painting by László Mednyánszky.
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Born at Spišská Stará Ves in 1864, died in Budapest District VII in 1932.
The recorded working language is Hungarian and Slovak. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Nándor Katona is recorded in the collections of Šariš Gallery, Central Slovakian Gallery, Nitra Gallery, Tatra Gallery and Slovak National Gallery.
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- 1.Raphael Patai. Apprentice in Budapest. Lexington Books. 463. 2000. 0-7391-0210-9.
- 2.Dan Rottenberg. Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy. Reprint of a work published in 1977 by Random House, New York. 257. 1986. 0-8063-1151-7.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Anna Ondrušeková Ferdinand Katona 1864–1932 publ. Tatranská Galéria, Poprad, 2004.
- Biography in Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
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