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Béla Kása

photographer
Pécs, 20 June 1952
Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2021–2023)
Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2023–)
Béla Kása may be regarded as the most important visual chronicler of the vanishing peasant culture and way of life. He was born in Pécs and emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in the summer of 1965. He was thirteen years old at the time and did not leave Hungary of his own accord, but followed his parents.
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Parallel Life Paths
2019
governmental award

Balogh Rudolf Award

State award granted in recognition of outstanding photographic activity, the most prestigious professional prize in Hungarian photography.

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2012
governmental award

Hungarian Gold Cross of Merit

The Hungarian Cross of Merit may be awarded to Hungarian and foreign citizens who have achieved outstanding merits in promoting and supporting the interests of an independent and democratic Hungary, with separate civilian and military divisions.

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