(b Kassa [now Kosice, Slovakia], 24 March 1833; d Kassa, 10 Feb 1885). Hungarian painter, printmaker and teacher. He came from a family of artists and in 1851 began studying at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna under Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, but he left in 1853 to take over the painting and sculpture studio of his father, Ignac Klimkovics (1800–52). In 1853 he ran a private art school with his brother, Ferenc Klimkovics (1826–90), and between 1861 and 1884 he was the drawing master at the Kassa Art School; Gyula Benczúr and Leopold Horovitz were among his pupils. Klimkovics showed in the Pest Artists Association exhibitions (e.g. The Favourite, 1854) and helped found the National Hungarian Fine Art Association and the Upper Northern Hungarian Museum Circle, of which he was director. He painted altarpieces, such as St Stephen Converting the Hungarians (1854; Budapest, N.G.) at Abaújszántó, genre pictures and portraits (e.g. Bertalan Szemere; Miskolc, County Hall). In the 1850s and 1860s he made lithographs of some of his drawings in order to print them as illustrations in magazines. He also engraved in stone the genre painting Gypsy Musicians (Budapest, N.G.), and various landscapes, portraits, history paintings and architectural drawings. Apart from his naturalistic watercolours (e.g. Village Blacksmith) he made a series of 12 works in this medium on the life of soldiers, one of which (Young Man in the Tavern) he later painted in oils. He was commissioned by Abraham Vay and his son Daniel Vay to paint the family’s 200 noble ancestors, executing the work in a similar style to that of Ján Kupecky.