Nándor Mikola
Nándor Mikola (1911-2006) was a Hungarian-Finnish artist. Born Nándor Josef Mikolajcsik (Mikolajcsik Nándor József) in Budapest, he followed in the footsteps of his father the Hungarian artist Ignác Mikolajcik by entering the Budapest University for Art and Design in 1928 to study lithography. At the same time he studied painting at the Budapest Free Art Academy under the guidance of Gyula Rudnay.
Also recorded as Nandor Mikola · Nándor J. Mikola · Nándor Josef Mikolajcsik · Nandor J. Mikola
Nándor Mikola
- Full name
- Mikolajcsik Nándor József.
- Born
- 1911. · Budapest.
- Died
- 2006. · Vaasa.
- Nationality
- Finland and Hungary.
- Honours
- Professor and Order of the Star.
- Languages
- Finnish.
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Nándor Mikola (1911-2006) was a Hungarian-Finnish artist. Born Nándor Josef Mikolajcsik (Mikolajcsik Nándor József) in Budapest, he followed in the footsteps of his father the Hungarian artist Ignác Mikolajcik by entering the Budapest University for Art and Design in 1928 to study lithography. At the same time he studied painting at the Budapest Free Art Academy under the guidance of Gyula Rudnay.
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Nándor Mikola (1911–2006) was Finnish and Hungarian. Born Mikolajcsik Nándor József in Budapest, Nándor Mikola died in Vaasa. Nándor Mikola lived in Ilmajoki, Lapua and Vaasa.
Languages used include Finnish. Works by Nándor Mikola are held at City of Pori art collection, Finnish National Gallery and Lönnström Art Museum. Nándor Mikola received Order of the Star and Professor.
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He graduated as a lithographer in 1932 and participated for the first time in a public exhibition at the Obuda district culture house in Budapest, where he displayed his watercolour paintings. That year he worked as a lithographer in Budapest but continued studies at Graphic Institute of Vienna the same year. In 1935 Mikola arrived in Helsinki, Finland to help his Hungarian artist friend Josef Miklos to decorate a restaurant called "Hungaria". He started studying graphics at the Art Industrial Central-school in Helsinki under the guidance of Germund Paaer, and in 1938 the firm Lassila & Tikanoja in Vaasa employed him as a commercial draughtsman of (he later became the company's director of PR).
Hilkka Inkala is recorded as having studied under Nándor Mikola. The recorded working language is Finnish. Residence is recorded at Vaasa and Lapua. Work by Nándor Mikola is recorded in the collections of Finnish National Gallery, Lönnström Art Museum and City of Pori art collection. Distinctions recorded are Professor and Order of the Star.
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On origins, the institutional record states the following. Mikola died in 2006 at Vaasa. The record continues: nándor Mikola is recorded at birth as Mikolajcsik Nándor József. Born in 1911 at Budapest.
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Vaasa, Lapua and Ilmajoki.
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