# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gyorgy-kepes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:52:35.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gyorgy-kepes"
name: "György Kepes"
slug: "gyorgy-kepes"
description: "György Kepes 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 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."
tagline: "Hungarian artist (1906–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mr._and_Mrs._Gyorgy_Kepes_and_M._Richard_Rose%2C_RIT_NandE_Vol14Num6_1982_Feb18_Complete_(Gyorgy_crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1906-10-04"
deathDate: "2001-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.019224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جيورجى كيپيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kepes"
    title: "György Kepes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kepes"
    title: "György Kepes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kepes"
    title: "György Kepes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kepes"
    title: "György Kepes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepes_Gy%C3%B6rgy"
    title: "Kepes György"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kepes"
    title: "György Kepes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%9A%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5"
    title: "ジョージ・ケペッシュ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gyorgy_Kepes"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kepes"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721633"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump