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Körösfoi-Kriesch, Aladár
(b Buda, 29 Oct 1863; d Budapest, 16 June 1920). Hungarian painter, designer, decorative artist and writer. He studied from 1880 at the School for Design Drawing in Budapest as a pupil of Bertalan Székely, and at the same time he had private lessons from Károly Lotz. He acquired further training in Munich, Venice and Rome, where he held a scholarship for two years. His early religious paintings are strongly influenced by Italian Renaissance art and also by the work of Ferenc Szoldatits, a Hungarian Nazarene painter whom he met in Rome. From an early stage in his career, Körösfoi-Kriesch was a collector of Hungarian folk art and integrated into his painting the characteristic folk motifs he encountered on collecting expeditions. From 1893 Körösfoi-Kriesch spent his summers in the Transylvanian town of Diód (now in Romania) and gathered around himself a group of painter friends, including Sándor Nagy, who shared his views—in particular a high esteem for Lev Tolstoy’s ideas and a regard for folk art as an ideal form of expression. Körösfoi-Kriesch was also visited here by his artist friends: the Canadian Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart (1873–1954), the Austrian Tom Richard von Dreger (1868–1948) and the Frenchman Léo Belmonte (1870–1956). In 1901 Körösfoi-Kriesch settled in the village of Gödöllo, and he is generally regarded as the founder of the GÖDÖLLO COLONY.
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