Background
Kelemen, Pál was born on April 24, 1894 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to United States, 1932, naturalized, 1939. Son of Joseph and Jenny (Gratt) Kelemen.
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Recreates The Times And Scenes Of El Greco's Life, Placing His Work In The Byzantine Tradition. Illustrated With Many Black-And-White Photographs.
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Kelemen, Pál was born on April 24, 1894 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to United States, 1932, naturalized, 1939. Son of Joseph and Jenny (Gratt) Kelemen.
Student universities, Budapest, Munich and Paris. Student universities museum research, Budapest, Vienna, Florence, London, Madrid, Seville. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Arizona.
Kelemen was one of the first to recognize the importance of medieval Spanish colonial artwork of the Americas. During World War I he served for four years as a Hungarian cavalry officer After the war Kelemen started to study early Christian and Byzantine art
In 1932, Kelemen moved to the United States.
Kelemen carried out several cultural missions and surveys in Latin America, some under the patronage of the Cultural Division of the United States. Department of State. He also conducted art tours and lectures throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe.
Kelemen was a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the recipient of an honorary degree from the University of Arizona. He also contributed to Encyclopædia Britannica and several other publications.
Kelemen supported the authenticity of the Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure.
In Medieval American Art (1943) Kelemen called the figure a "unique statue.. cut from a rather pale mottled jade.. unbelievably smooth over the entire surface". Kelemen died at the age of 98 in Louisiana Jolla, California.
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Honorary presbiter First Magyar Reformed Church, New York Officer, 4 years, World War I. Member Commission for Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, World World War II. Trustee Kodaly Center American.
Fellow Royal Anthropological Institute. Member various science societies in the United States, Latin American, Europe.
Married Elisabeth Hutchings Zulauf, May 2, 1932.