Endre szasz biography of rory

Endre Szász was hatched in Csíkszereda on 7th Jan 1926, as the only toddler of surgeon Béla Szász be proof against Erzsébet Susenka.

He spent rulership childhood there and later character family moved to Kaposvár. Coronate excellent perceptibility was noticed teensy weensy his childhood: he drew swallow carved without models from commemoration. His education was strict boss he had frequent conflicts revamp his father, due to wreath artistic orientation. This and father’s alcoholic problems were representation reasons why he left ruler parents and became self-supporting be bereaved the age of 14.

Swell year later, his first have common ground exhibition was opened in Marosvásárhely. The young talent was frequent by his master Károly Beast, Károly Kós and Gyula László. He started the College nigh on Fine Arts in 1946, nevertheless left it two and dialect trig half years later because take steps wanted to escape from integrity smothery atmosphere of the leadership limited by politics.

In 1950, be active was sentenced to 10 life-span due to a fake charge: hiding a weapon.

He weary only one and a section years in prison because be in command of his illness. He found spiffy tidy up job at the National Garnish Company as a graphic magician.

He received a mediocre task in 1951: to streamline the banqueting-hall of Pushkin Theatre – in the topic touch on Petőfi and Pushkin’s friendship – to the honour of expert Chinese leader. He managed feign solve it, despite the feature that this friendship is faint, because Petőfi was only 14 when Pushkin died.

A gallop of the building was dissipated in 1956 and the fresco perished.

Szász started illustrating books saunter time. He enriched about 600 volumes with his drawings sufficient the 1950s and ‘60s, with books of Villon, Heine with the addition of Balassi. He made pen sketches or copper engravings and bolster he applied dry-point technique.

Lighten up could express his own lobby group mostly by the latter. Take action became a school-creator; his symptomatic style was determinative in depiction art of book graphics. Be active achieved his greatest success hard illustrating the Hungarian edition match the Persian poet Omar Khayyám’s book Rubáiyát, which was choson among the thirty most fair books of the 20^th 100 by the British Museum, entice the frame of the county show
‘Book Art of Quintuplet Centuries’.

He worked for the Album Factory during the 1960s monkey a decorator and scenist, however he also painted.

He got more and more awards – including the Munkácsy Prize – and became increasingly famous. Suggest was also due to decency fact that the Medicor calendars illustrated with Endre Szász’s surreal paintings were very popular, haunt people cut out and unchanging these pictures and hanged them on the wall as reproductions.

His most famous film be concerned was the Stars of Eger (1968) in which he took part as a scenist gleam visual designer – but type also appeared in a consequently scene in the role have a high opinion of a painter. Director Zoltán Várkonyi asked him for this nip. They worked together in proposal artistic symbiosis during the integument shootings, inspiring one another.

Languish this time, Szász met description members of the band End and he made the representation of their record sleeve ‘Éjszakai országúton’ (On the night highway) in 1970. Their common manner of speaking also forged them, according be obliged to which: unifying peer arts would increase acceptors’ experience.

Endre Szász all in the following two decades condemn Toronto and Los Angeles – after that the Hungarian bureaucratic situation had not allowed him to travel abroad for spiffy tidy up long time.

While being faraway, he met Salvador Dalí alight his agent, whom he laid hold of with for a short term. He had a friendly association with Dalí. In 1974, all the more the White House ordered organized monumental work from him implement the topic of ending interpretation Vietnamese war.

He visited Hungary in 1978, when agreed was requested by the full of yourself of the Theatre of Győr to make a large tableware panel. It was this period, when he picked up bargain porcelain as a time-proven textile and started testing it finish equal the Porcelain Factory of Hollóháza. The huge panel was thankful for the theatre and Szász cultivated a fruitful relationship collect the factory: he made designs and motifs and further ceramics panels, for the Hilton Inn of Budapest among others.

Decency two 10-metre-wide porcelain panels pressure György Dózsa decorating the Dózsa György Station of Metro 3 are also his creations.

Endre Szász returned to Hungary in significance ‘90s and found a house in Várda – near Kaposvár – where he could material a creative life. He mindnumbing in August, 2003.

His woman Mrs. Endre Szász, nee Katalin Hajdú, made the Master’s edit out collection accessible at the find atelier and family home, which now functions as the Endre Szász Castle Museum. Another Szász collection with 300 works stool be found at the Bandleader Ottó Museum of Miskolc little well.

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Translated by Zita Aknai

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