Nándor Katona

The native form of this personal name is Katona Nándor. This article uses the Western name order.

Nándor Katona, probable self portrait.

Katona Nándor or Nathan Ferdinand Kleinberger (Sept. 12, 1864 Szepesófalu (Spišská Stará Ves), Kingdom of Hungary – August 1, 1932, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian Jewish painter^[1][2].

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. He later studied in Budapest and Paris, and traveled extensively throughout Western Europe.

Most of his works depict scenes of nature from his home region, the Szepes county (Spiš) in particular views of the Tatra Mountains and the area of Késmárk (Kežmarok), which he considered his home town despite having spent much of his life in Budapest.

His works are on exhibit at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, the Slovak National Gallery, the Eastern Slovak Gallery in Kassa (Košice) and the Tatra Gallery in Poprad.

References

1. ^ Raphael Patai (2000). Apprentice in Budapest. Lexington Books. pp. 463. ISBN 0739102109. http://books.google.com/books?id=5-bcXrRTBaAC&pg=PA463. Retrieved 2008-10-30. 
2. ^ Dan Rottenberg (1986). Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy. Reprint of a work published in 1977 by Random House, New York. pp. 257. ISBN 0806311517. http://books.google.com/books?id=IlL6kbumlKoC&pg=PA257. Retrieved 2008-10-30. 

Further reading

• Anna Ondrušeková Ferdinand Katona 1864 – 1932 publ. Tatranská Galéria, Poprad, 2004.
• Biography in Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon

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Name	Katona, Nandor
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Date of birth	1864
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Date of death	1932
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