Bela Erdelyi - Artist Info

About Bela Erdelyi

Name variants

Adalbert Erdeli, Adalbert Erdelyi, Vojtech Erdelyi
  • Biography

    Adalbert Mikhailovich Erdeli (also seen as Erdely, born Béla Erdélyi; May 25, 1891 - September 19, 1955) was a Subcarpathian painter, one of the main figures of midcentury Transcarpathian art.

    Erdeli was born in Kelemenfalva, Austria-Hungary (today ?????????, Ukraine) into a Hungarian family. He studied at the Budapest Academy of Arts from 1911 through 1915, then taught in Mukacevo (now Mukacheve, Ukraine) and Užhorod (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine), when Transcarpathia already became part of Czechoslovakia.

    With Yosyp Bokshai he founded an art school in Uzhhorod in 1927 and the Society of Subcarpathian Painters, of which he was president, in 1931. In 1945–55 he was chairman of the Transcarpathian branch of the Union of A...

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