Background
Kilenyi, Julio was born on February 21, 1885 in Arad, Hungary. Son of Joseph and Rosa (Pecsi) Kilenyi.
Kilenyi, Julio was born on February 21, 1885 in Arad, Hungary. Son of Joseph and Rosa (Pecsi) Kilenyi.
Student Royal Arts School, Budapast, 1900-1902, also studied in Germany and France, 1902-1907.
Came to the United States, 1916, naturalized, 1924. Active as sculptor in Argentina, South America, 1907-1916. Represented by medallions and plaques on permanent exhibition in Metropolitan Museum Art, Cleveland Museum Art, Boston Museum Fine Arts, Masonic Museum, United States War Department, Newark Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York History Museum, University of Oxford (England), British Museum and Victoria-Albert Museum, (London), The Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York, Vatican Museum (Rome), Columbia University.
Tercentenial medallian City New New York
25 portraits Milwaukee Hall of Fame sports figures. 9 portraits Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown.
Portraite of President United Aircraft in Hartford. 50th Anniversary Boy’s Club of America medallion, and others
Art director L. G. Balfour Company, Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Member Prezzi-Kilenyi Association, since 1930. Honorable mention Exhibition of Allied Artists American, 1931. Bronze medal 10th Olympiad Committee, Los Angeles, 1932.
Lindsey Morris memorial prize for basrelief, 1937.
Fellow American International Academy. Member National Sculpture Society (life. Member), American Numismatic Society, Allied Artists American, Audubon Artists, Academy Political Scientists, American International Academy (life), International Society American (treasurer since 1952).
Bruckner Society American (vice president since 1935).