Gustav Friedrich Keleti

Gusztáv Frigyes Keleti ( born December 13, 1834 in Bratislava, † September 2, 1902 in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter and art critic.

Life

Keleti initially studied law at the universities of Pest and Vienna and then educators was in the house of the Hungarian Education Minister József Eötvös, whose school of thought exercised a lasting influence on his development.

Following his tendency to Keleti the artist's career turned toward it. During a multi-year stay at the Art Academy in Munich, he was under the influence of Johann Fischbach, Friedrich Voltz and Eduard Schleich his own way, the zuführten him in the art of landscape painting, the lyric- heroic direction.

Besides, he tried his extended by repeated travel views on art and the literary field in Hungary to enforce and there to initiate a more objective and more understanding of art criticism.

In 1871, under his leadership, the royal Hungarian national art school and drawing teacher training college, in 1880 the Royal School of Applied Arts built, whose director was Keleti. From 1874 he was also a member of the Hungarian Academy.