LC control no. | no2008153501 |
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Personal name heading | Csánky, Dénes, 1885-1972 |
Variant(s) | Csánki, Dénes Csánky, Dionisio |
Found in | Unkarilaista taidetta, 1938; p. 11 (Dénes Csánky) Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Internationale Künstlerdatenbank, CD-ROM ed., 2006 (Csánky, Dénes; landscape and animal painter, graphic artist; b. Apr. 29, 1885, Budapest; d. Jun. 27, 1972, São Paolo; Csánki, Dénes; Csánky, Dionisio) Magyar életrajzi lexikon online, Feb. 14, 2013 (Csánky Dénes; b. Apr. 29, 1885, Budapest; d. June 27, 1972, São Paolo; painter, art critic, museum director; from July 1935 general director of Országos Magyar Szépműveszeti Múzeum; in 1944 appointed government commissioner for seized Jewish art; carried out the Szálasi government's order to organize and oversee the transport of the Szépműveszeti Múzeum's art treasures to Germany; after the end of WWII did not return to Hungary from Germany; in 1949 emigrated to Brazil, where he died in 1972) |