Adalbert Erdeli

Adalbert Mikhailovich Erdeli (Ерделі, Адальберт, also seen as Erdélyi or Erdely; May 25, 1891 - September 19, 1955) was a Subcarpathian painter, one of the main figures of midcentury Transcarpathian art.

Erdeli was born in Zahattia, in the Kingdom of Hungary, and born into a sizable ethnic Hungarian minority in that region of Ukraine. He studied at the Budapest Academy of Arts from 1911 through 1915, then taught in Mukacheve and Uzhhorod i those days´ Czechoslovakia.

Along with fellow Budapest graduate and World War I veteran Joseph Bokshai, Erdeli founded an art school in 1927, which eventually evolved into the Uzhgorod State Arts and Crafts College. That institution is now the Transcarpathian Art Institute. Erdeli and Brokshai are among the primary figures of the Transcarpathian stylistic school.

Among his students was Fedir Manailo. He died in Uzhhorod.