László Keleti

László Keleti (31 July 1907 - 1985, Paris) was an artist.

Born in 1907 in a small village in what was then Hungary, László Keleti moved to the Romanian city of Alba Iulia where he began his artistic studies, then moved to Paris to continue them at the famous Academie Colarossi. Throughout the 1930s he exhibited in Romania, France, Switzerland, and Hungary as an engaged antifascist, and in 1936 he produced a series of engravings representing the persecution of Jews under fascism, which was widely lauded by critics. The following year, in 1937, he came to Zurich as the representative of a Hungarian-Jewish newspaper from Cluj to document through his drawings the personalities that participated in the 20th World Zionist Congress organized to develop a strategy for countering the anti-Jewish persecutions rapidly taking hold throughout Europe. After the war he published another series of drawings documenting the destruction and horror of the Holocaust and continued to exhibit throughout Romania. He emigrated to Israel in 1962, where he enjoyed limited success. In 1969 Keleti moved to Frankfurt and died in 1985 in Paris while visiting the city on the occasion of his last exhibition. (Source).

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• Exhibition at Material, Zurich, curated by Olga Stefan, 2021.
• Wikipedia-HU