13 Facts About Nickolas Muray

Nickolas Muray's father Samu Mandl was a postal worker, and his mother Klara Lovit was a homemaker.

Nickolas Muray attended a graphic arts school in Budapest, where he studied lithography, photoengraving, and photography.

Nickolas Muray then married Leja Gorska in 1921, but they divorced.

Nickolas Muray had a decade-long on-and-off liaison with artist Frida Kahlo.

In 1913 Nickolas Muray sailed to New York City, and was able to find work as a color printer in Brooklyn.

Nickolas Muray quickly became recognized as an important portrait photographer, and his subjects included most of the celebrities of New York City.

Nickolas Muray's images were published in many other publications, including Vogue, Ladies' Home Journal, and The New York Times.

Nickolas Muray was considered the master of the three-color carbro process.

Nickolas Muray competed for the United States at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics in the sabre fencing events.

Nickolas Muray won the US Team Saber National Championship in 1927 and 1928, and the National Saber Championship in 1929.

Nickolas Muray won the Metropolitan Saber Fencing Championship in 1934,1942,1950, and 1951.

Nickolas Muray represented the New York Athletic Club and was a lifelong fencer for the club.

Nickolas Muray suffered a heart attack on 9 February 1961, four years prior to his death while fencing at the club, and was saved through the efforts of a fellow fencer and physician Dr Barry Pariser who performed heart massage.