Ervin Baktay Explained
Ervin Baktay |
Birth Name: | Ervin Gottesmann |
Birth Date: | 1890 |
Death Date: | 1963 |
Occupation: | Writer, painter |
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Subject: | Indology |
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Ervin Baktay (1890–1963; born Ervin Gottesmann[1]) was an author noted for popularizing Indian culture in Hungary.[2] [3]
Baktay had started his career as a painter[4] and he encouraged his niece Amrita Sher-Gil to pursue art. He gave up painting to study eastern religions and art, and became a renowned Indologist.[4]
Early life
Ervin Baktay was born on 24 June 1890 in Dunaharaszti, on the Pest side of Budapest.[5] He was the youngest of five children of Raoul Gottesmann and his wife Antononia Levys-Martonfalvy.[6] Following the death of his father in 1905, Baktay's mother decided to move to Austria and then to Zebegény, Hungary, at the onset of the First World War.[7] He studied painting with Simon Hollósy in Munich.[8] Later, in 1927, he made his first journey to India.[9]
He was uncle to artist Amrita Sher-Gil and nephew to Nagybánya artist Alfréd Gottesmann (1872–1965).
Works
Baktay translated the Kama Sutra in 1920 and then published a version of the Mahābhārata in 1923.[10] In 1960, he produced a version of the Ramayana.[10] His major work, History of Indian Art, was published in 1963.[8]
Death
Baktay died in 1963.[8]
Selected publications
- Baktay Ervin: Die Kunst Indiens; Übers. Edith Róth; Bearb. Heinz Kucharski; Berlin - Budapest, Terra - Akad. Verlag, 1963.
Bibliography
- Book: Dalmia, Yashodhara . Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life . 2013 . Penguin Books . Gurugram . 978-0-14-342026-2 . en.
- Book: Sundaram . Vivan . Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings . 2010 . Tulika Books . New Delhi . 1. 1-417. 978-81-89487-59-1.
- Book: Sundaram . Vivan . Amrita Sher-Gil: A Self-Portrait in Letters and Writings . 2010 . Tulika Books . New Delhi . 2. 418-821. 978-81-89487-59-1.
Notes and References
- http://www.terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/baktay.html Baktay Ervin (1890-1963) megjelent könyvei (Terebess Ázsia E-Tár)
- http://www.indianembassy.hu/html/education.html Indo-Hungarian Cultural & Educational Relations, Historical Perspective
- Claudine Bautze-Picron. Ervin Baktay, the art historian. BÉLA KELÉNYI, Az indológus indián. Baktay Ervin emlékezete (The Indologist Indian: Memory of Ervin Baktay), Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts – Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, 2014 (pp. 364-9)., 2014. halshs-01079408
- http://www.sikh-heritage.co.uk/arts/amritashergil/amritashergill.html Amrita Shergil
- Dalmia, pp. 12-13
- Sundaram, p. xvi
- Sundaram, p. 60
- Sundaram, p. 56
- Book: Keserü . Katalin . Dalmia . Yashodhara . Amrita Sher-Gil: Art & Life : a reader . 2014 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-809886-7 . https://books.google.com/books?id=U7W4oAEACAAJ . en . 8. Amrita Sher-Gil: the Indian painter and her French and Hungarian connections. 67-68.
- Book: Pollet . Ag . Indian Epic Values: Rāmāyaṇa and Its Impact : Proceedings of the 8th International Rāmāyaṇa Conference, Leuven, 6-8 July 1991 . 1995 . Peeters Publishers . Leuven . 90-6831-701-6 . 149 . https://books.google.com/books?id=EVnK3q48dL0C&dq=Ervin+Baktay&pg=PA149 . en . II. International impact of Ramayana.