KELEMEN : Hussar's picture book (fülszöveg)
Pál Kelemen was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1894. In his Latin School years, he played the violin in the student orchestra. Fritz Reiner, five years his senior, was the conductor. He attended universities in Budapest, Munich, and Paris and spent some time at Oxford, studying also in many of the great museums of Europe. His writings were on the fine arts and literature, first published before his eighteenth birthday.
Episodes from the four and a quarter years of service as a cavalry officer in World War I are the content of this book.
A decade later, in the Italian Alps, the author met an American girl who was living in Europe with her parents, studying music. They were married in Florence, Italy, and lived there for a time before coming to the United States on what was planned as a short family visit. In the Peabody Museum (Harvard University) he saw pre-Columbian objects of rare beauty and was persuaded to write a survey of this art and architecture, little known at that time. Research took him on numerous trips to Mexico and Central America. More than 22,000 copies of his Medieval American Art—Masterpieces of the New World Before Columbus have been printed.
During World War II, Kelemen worked on the committee for the protection of artistic monuments in war areas and later went on a cultural mission to four countries of South America. Since then he has lectured under the aegis of the State Department, both in the Old and the New Worlds. He is widely acclaimed as a major pioneer in the art of the Americas, with works published in seven languages and ten countries.
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