György Kepes

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1906-10-04

Deathday 2001-12-29 (95 years old)

Also Known As Gyorgy Kepes

György Kepes

Biography

György Kepes (Hungarian: [ˈkɛpɛʒ ˈɟørɟ]; October 4, 1906 – December 29, 2001) was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1967 he founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974. Description above from the Wikipedia article György Kepes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Director

1972
Flame Orchard

as Director

1965
Illuminations

as Director

Crew

Actor