Artist, critic and teacher, born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary, his daughter being the artist Lydia Kemeny. He was mainly a portrait, landscape and still life artist in oil, but also made pottery. Studied at the Academy of Art, Budapest, 1913–14; was an Official War Artist to the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I; and attended Academy of Creative Arts, Vienna, 1920–3, followed by a two-year postgraduate course. Between 1925–38 Kemeny lived in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, moving to London in the latter year. During World War II while practising as an artist he worked in an aircraft factory and at fire-watching. From 1947–79 Kemeny taught at Hammersmith College of Art and for some years was advisor to the House of Commons Fine Art Committee. Took part in mixed shows at Cooling and Leger Galleries and at Roland, Browse & Delbanco.