Kertesz andre biography of albert

HUNGARY 1894-1925 | A Vocation Found

July 2, 1894                                                                                              

Andor Kertész – later André Kertész – is born in Budapest, as the middle child of a middle-class Jewish family.

His father, Lipót Kertész (ca. 1842-1909) was a book merchant, his mother, Ernesztin Hoffmann (1863-1933) owned a coffee bar.

c.1900

He spends a lot of his childhood and youth at his relatives in the country-side, in and nearby the settlement of Szigetbecse.

“When I was six years old, I was visiting my relatives where I found magazines illustrated with beautiful old woodcuts.

I fell in love with these deeply. I thought that later I would do things like those – and from then on, I looked at things as I photographed later.”

1909-1914

After the death of his father, he and his two brothers are taken into the custody of their mother’s brother.

Upon completing his studies, his uncle gets h