Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch was a spiritual and intellectual leader at the Artist Colony of Gödöllő. His creed is now only to be found in the Appendix of Hungarian Applied Art 1907, issue IV. He named The Good Helmsman. The theme 'carpet' determined the ars poetica of mater Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch and the group that surrounded him, according to which it can be divided into 'Cognition', 'Love', 'Transylvania' and 'Promptitude of Goodness'.

We commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch in 2013. He was the first born to a German speaking mother and a teacher of natural history father. At school he received classic education. In his youth, he spent pleasurable times in Kolozsvár and the Castle of Buda. He spent his spare time there and at those places were where his art began. Through his friends and family, he became the student of Bertalan Székely and attended the Art School of Budapest where he received his diploma from at the age of 19. He began working at the University of Art in the autumn of 1888. He continued his education in Munich (1889), Venice (1890), then in Rome (1891).