Imre kinski biography definition

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Imre Kinszki (March 10, 1901 - 1945), descendant of a middle-class Jewish family, was a key figure and organizer of amateur photography in Hungary between the World Wars. Because he was not able to continue his university studies as a result of the numerus clausus, the Jewish educational quota, he had to take a post as a correspondent and filing clerk at the Hungarian Union of Manufacturers.

He worked there until he was drafted for labor service in 1943.

In addition to natural sciences and philosophy, he began to focus his interest on photography in the mid 1920s. Kinszki - who began by photographing his children, family and immediate surroundings of Zugló (Budapest XIV.

District) - was first mentioned in professional literature in 1931, upon becoming a member of the Hungarian National Alliance of Amateur Photographers (MAOSZ), established at the turn of the century. Three years later in his essay“Shadows of the Past” published in Fotóművészeti Hírek, in contrast to the