György Kepes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

György Kepes

Hungarian artist (1906-2001)

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1906

Place of Birth: Selyp, Hungary

Date of Death: 29-Dec-2001

Profession: photographer, painter, designer

Nationality: Hungary, United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

György Kepes ['?ø?? 'k?p??] (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.