Endre Szász

Endre László Szász (“Vallon”) (7 January 1926 – 18 August 2003) was a Hungarian painter, illustrator, graphic artist, printmaker, muralist, production designer and ceramics decorator (porcelain painter). He described himself as a Folk Surrealist.[1][2]

Endre Szász
Born(1926-01-07)January 7, 1926
Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
Died18 August 2003(2003-08-18) (aged 77)
Mosdós, Hungary
NationalityHungarian
Known fordrawing, printing, illustration, decoration

Early life

Endre's father, Béla Szász, was a doctor, and he seems to have inherited his artistic ability from his mother's (Erzsébet Susenka) family. He was a natural artist and drew from childhood. He used oil, acrylic, tempera, pencil, ink, charcoal, monotype, drypoint, lithography, etching and aquatint, and painted on several materials, like posters and porcelain. He also had several book illustrations.[3]

The tree of the knowledge, exhibited in Miskolc

Endre studied at the University of Fine Art in Budapest.[4]

Professional life

Between the late 1940s until the late 1960s, Szász worked as an illustrator. During this time, he illustrated a few hundred books. In 1959, he won an illustrator prize in the Leipzig Fair. In 1964 in Britain, he presented his works on Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. He had several exhibitions all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City), Auschwitz Museum (Poland), the Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest), and also exhibited in Madrid, Copenhagen, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Oslo, Johannesburg, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Budapest, Amman (Jordan) and Tokyo.[2] A Szász original also hangs in La Sebastiana, one of the homes of the famous Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda.[4] Szász owned a pet ocelot, as had Dali, though it is not certain this was in emulation.[5]

Szász lived in Toronto, Canada 1970–1974, then in Los Angeles, California until 1982, when he went back to Hungary.[3]

gollark: You can't send information faster than light with quantum entanglement (or quite possibly at all), and systems which can use magic ultra-secure communications channels will not magically be immune to hacking.
gollark: Apparently lockpicks are pretty cheap and most locks are terrible and quite vulnerable to them. Which is worrying.
gollark: What's a "GE supervirus"?
gollark: That probably crosses into politics somewhat?
gollark: Oh, the thing with... rescuing Freya, or whatever, if I remember right?

References
  1. "Endre Szasz Art". Qth.com. Retrieved 2013-11-15.
  2. "Endre Szasz - Artist". Askart.com. 2008-05-23. Retrieved 2013-11-15.
  3. Magyar és nemzetközi ki kicsoda 1998 (in Hungarian). Budapest: Biográf. 1997. ISBN 963-9051-19-5.
  4. Péter Fitz, ed. (2001). Kortárs magyar művészeti lexikon III. (P–Z) (in Hungarian). Budapest: Enciklopédia. pp. 506–507. ISBN 963-8477-46-6.
  5. "Lessons in Ikea primate care, courtesy of a surrealist Rosedale ocelot | National Post". Fullcomment.nationalpost.com. Archived from the original on 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2013-11-15.
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