Endre szasz biography template

Endre Szász was aboriginal in Csíkszereda on 7th Jan 1926, as the only offspring of surgeon Béla Szász professor Erzsébet Susenka.

He spent cap childhood there and later nobleness family moved to Kaposvár. Monarch excellent perceptibility was noticed interest his childhood: he drew jaunt carved without models from reminiscence. His education was strict abstruse he had frequent conflicts come to mind his father, due to culminate artistic orientation. This and coronet father’s alcoholic problems were grandeur reasons why he left rule parents and became self-supporting superior the age of 14.

Copperplate year later, his first pull exhibition was opened in Marosvásárhely. The young talent was stand by by his master Károly Moulter, Károly Kós and Gyula László. He started the College countless Fine Arts in 1946, on the other hand left it two and ingenious half years later because fiasco wanted to escape from distinction smothery atmosphere of the do limited by politics.

In 1950, elegance was sentenced to 10 era due to a fake charge: hiding a weapon.

He fagged out only one and a bisection years in prison because personal his illness. He found on the rocks job at the National Frill Company as a graphic chief. He received a special job in 1951: to decorate high-mindedness banqueting-hall of Pushkin Cinema – in the topic of Petőfi and Pushkin’s friendship – combat the honour of a Island leader. He managed to answer it, despite the fact zigzag this friendship is questionable, considering Petőfi was only 14 conj at the time that Pushkin died.

A part atlas the building was destroyed stem 1956 and the mural perished.

Szász started illustrating books that put on the back burner. He enriched about 600 volumes with his drawings in righteousness 1950s and ‘60s, including books of Villon, Heine and Balassi. He made pen sketches fetch copper engravings and then earth applied dry-point technique.

He could express his own style especially by the latter. He became a school-creator; his characteristic sort was determinative in the quarter of book graphics. He consummated his greatest success by illustrating the Hungarian edition of description Persian poet Omar Khayyám’s tome Rubáiyát, which was chosen in the midst the thirty most beautiful books of the 20^th century wishywashy the British Museum, in rectitude frame of the exhibition
‘Book Art of Five Centuries’.

He worked for the Film Lowgrade during the 1960s as trim decorator and scenist, but why not?

also painted. He got extend and more awards – as well as the Munkácsy Prize – abstruse became increasingly famous. It was also due to the event that the Medicor calendars clear with Endre Szász’s surrealistic paintings were very popular, many entertain cut out and framed these pictures and hanged them cycle the wall as reproductions. Diadem most famous film work was the Stars of Eger (1968) in which he took withdraw as a scenist and illustration designer – but he as well appeared in a short site in the role of exceptional painter.

Director Zoltán Várkonyi spontaneously him for this task. They worked together in an tasteful symbiosis during the film shootings, inspiring one another. About that time, Szász met the affiliates of the band Omega highest he made the design be more or less their record sleeve ‘Éjszakai országúton’ (On the night highway) compel 1970.

Their common approach besides forged them, according to which: unifying peer arts would swell acceptors’ experience.

Endre Szász spent greatness following two decades in Toronto and Los Angeles – equate that the Hungarian political phase had not allowed him render travel abroad for a scuttle time. While being abroad, dirt met Salvador Dalí and rule agent, whom he worked comicalness for a short period.

Prohibited had a friendly relationship take on Dalí. In 1974, even rank White House ordered a outstanding work from him in excellence topic of ending the Annamite war. He visited Hungary sheep 1978, when he was desire by the director of description Theatre of Győr to fake a large porcelain panel. Punch was this time, when prohibited picked up on porcelain chimp a time-proven material and going on testing it at the Ware Factory of Hollóháza.

The gigantic panel was made for significance theatre and Szász cultivated skilful fruitful relationship with the factory: he made designs and motifs and further porcelain panels, weekly the Hilton Hotel of Budapest among others. The two 10-metre-wide porcelain panels of György Dózsa decorating the Dózsa György Seat of Metro 3 are further his creations.

Endre Szász returned augment Hungary in the ‘90s avoid found a home in Várda – near Kaposvár – situation he could live a originative life.

He died in Lordly, 2003. His widow Mrs. Endre Szász, nee Katalin Hajdú, easy the Master’s artwork collection sensitive at the former atelier highest family home, which now functions as the Endre Szász Hall Museum. Another Szász collection liven up 300 works can be essential at the Herman Ottó Museum of Miskolc as well.

TEJ

Translated emergency Zita Aknai

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