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Gyorgy Kepes Biography
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1906 |
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Born in Selyp, Hungary
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1924 - 1928 |
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Studied painting at the School of Arts in Budapest
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1930 |
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Collaborated with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Berlin
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1937 |
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Came to the U.S. to be the head of the Light and Color Department at the Institute of Design in Chicago, then known as the New Bauhaus
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1946 |
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Joined MIT as the associate professor of visual design
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1949 |
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Became a full professor at MIT
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1967 |
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Founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS)
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1995 |
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The Hungarian government endowed a museum in Eger, Hungary to house a major collection of Kepes' paintings, drawings, photographs and Kepes' archives
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1996 |
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Received the Medal of Honor and the Middle Cross of the Republic of Hungary
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2001 |
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Died in Cambridge, Mass.
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