Nándor Mikola (1911-2006) was a Hungarian-Finnish artist. Born Nándor Josef Mikolajcsik () in

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, he followed in the footsteps of his father the Hungarian artist Ignác Mikolajcik by entering the Budapest University for Art and Design in 1928 to study

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. At the same time he studied painting at the Budapest Free Art Academy under the guidance of . He graduated as a lithographer in 1932 and participated for the first time in a public exhibition at the Obuda district culture house in Budapest, where he displayed his watercolour paintings. That year he worked as a lithographer in Budapest but continued studies at Graphic Institute of Vienna the same year. In 1935 Mikola arrived in

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to help his Hungarian artist friend Josef Miklos to decorate a restaurant called "Hungaria". He started studying graphics at the Art Industrial Central-school in Helsinki under the guidance of , and in 1938 the firm Lassila & Tikanoja in Vaasa employed him as a commercial draughtsman of (he later became the company's director of PR).

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20th-century Finnish painters 21st-century Finnish painters Artists from Budapest Hungarian emigrants to Finland 1911 births 2006 deaths 20th-century Hungarian painters 21st-century Finnish lithographers 20th-century Hungarian lithographers 21st-century Hungarian lithographers 20th-century Finnish lithographers {{Finland-painter-stub