János Kristófi

Romanian painter (1925–2014)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Hungarian. (January 2014) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Hungarian article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Hungarian Wikipedia article at [[:hu:Kristófi János]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|hu|Kristófi János}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

János Kristófi
Born	(1925-12-15)15 December 1925 Bihor County, Romania
Died	5 January 2014(2014-01-05) (aged 88) Oradea, Romania
Occupation	Painter
Years active	1955–88

János Kristófi (15 December 1925 – 5 January 2014) was a Romanian painter.

János Kristófi was born into an ethnic Hungarian. He graduated from high school in Cluj-Napoca, graduated from the Ion Andreescu Academy of Fine Arts (1954). He was a teacher at the Folk Art School until his retirement in Oradea (1955–88). With his wife, Judit Hoványi's first joint exhibition with a sculptor-ceramic artist (1958), he was active in the artistic life of the city. His landscapes captured Oradea. Prepared by Béla Bartók, composer Sándor Bihari of Nagyvárad and Nicolae Jiga, known as the patron of public education. He had a "family exhibition" with his wife in Vienna and Leiden (1988), in Miskolc (1990), in Győr, Budapest (1991). and Szolnok (1995).

János Kristófi, a world-famous painter living in Oradea, celebrated his 88th birthday on December 15, 2013. He had been living in the city since 1954, where he taught generations for thirty years in the City of Art and then in the Folk High School. He had ten children there. Each of them was brought to life by the Catholic faith, and took on professions such as painting, singing, photography, playing the organ, law, engineering and medicine. "He became a true painter of Oradea, the successor and contemporary of the classical castles of the castle (Móric Baráth, István Balogh, Ernő Tibor, Leon Alex, Román Mottl, Gábor Miklóssy, Mihály Tompa, etc.). Zoltán Banner is an art historian living in Békéscsaba. [3]

János Kristófi died on 5 January 2014 at the age of 88 and was buried on 8 January 2014 at 3 pm in Oradea, the Steinberger Chapel of the city Rulikowsky Cemetery.

Awards, awards 2011 - Knight's Cross of the Order of the Republic of Hungary (civilian section) .^[1]