Katona Nándor or Nathan Ferdinand Kleinberger (12 September 1864 Szepesófalu (

Spišská Stará Ves Spišská Stará Ves (; or ; ; ; ; Goral: Golembarg) is a small town and urban municipality in Kežmarok District in the Prešov Region of north Slovakia. History In historical records the town was first mentioned in 1272. Before the establish ...

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now Slovakia – 1 August 1932,

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) was a

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painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. One of seven children of a dismally poor

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family he was discovered as a

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, brought up and instructed in painting by

László Mednyánszky Baron László Mednyánszky, also known by his Latinized name Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky (; 23 April 1852 – 17 April 1919), was a Slovaks, Slovak–Hungarians, Hungarian painter and philosopher, considered one of the ...

. He later studied in

and

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, and traveled extensively throughout Western Europe. Most of his works depict scenes of nature from his home region, the

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(Spiš) in particular views of the Tatra Mountains and the area of Késmárk (

Kežmarok Kežmarok ( or ; , , , ) is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia (population 16,000), on the Poprad River. Prior to World War I, it was in Szepes county in the Kingdom of Hungary. History Settlement at Kežmarok dates back to the Up ...

), which he considered his home town despite having spent much of his life in Budapest. His works are on exhibit at the

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, the

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, the Eastern Slovak Gallery in Kassa (

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) and the Tatra Gallery in

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