Timeline

1906

Born in Selyp, Hungary

1924 - 1928

Studied painting at the School of Arts in Budapest

1930

Collaborated with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Berlin

1937

Came to the U.S. to be the head of the Light and Color Department at the Institute of Design in Chicago, then known as the New Bauhaus

1946

Joined MIT as the associate professor of visual design

1949

Became a full professor at MIT

1967

Founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS)

1995

The Hungarian government endowed a museum in Eger, Hungary to house a major collection of Kepes' paintings, drawings, photographs and Kepes' archives

1996

Received the Medal of Honor and the Middle Cross of the Republic of Hungary

2001

Died in Cambridge, Mass.