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Barna Basilides (born 2nd March 1903, in Tornala in Hungary today Slovakia), was a Hungarian painter.

Life
He started his studies in 1920 at the Hungarian College for Applied Arts. Next year, he was accepted to the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where he studied with painters Gyula Rudnay and István Bosznay. He graduated in 1925. Later he went on several educational trips to Italy, Paris, Prague and Vienna.

In 1935, he was invited to Geneva, to design a tapestry for the Palace of Nations. He returned to Italy, Rome on scholarship in 1939. He was a member of the Hungarian Association of Fine Arts, the Artist Colony of Szolnok. His artistic career peaked in the 1940's. Barna Basilides was mainly known for his landscapes, he died on February 12th of 1967 in Budapest.