Pál Pátzay

Pál Pátzay ( born September 17, 1896 in Kapuvar, † September 14, 1979 in Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor and medalist.

Life

Pátzay was in Budapest 1910-1912 student of Béla Radnai at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1917 he became a member of the artistic movement Ma. From 1919 to 1922 he was active in the Hungarian Soviet Republic, after which he had to flee from Hungary and for a time resided in Paris. In the Horthy regime authoritarian Hungary Pátzay fit to politically and received government contracts whereby he was to satisfy the nationalist sentiment. In March 1944, failed in his attempt to preserve the painter István Farkas from deportation by the Eichmann command to Auschwitz.

After the Second World War Pátzay was elected at the general election in 1945 to the Hungarian Parliament, which, however, was dissolved in 1947 to Soviet pressure. Pátzay received an order for a monument in memory of the Jews saved by Raoul Wallenberg, which was demolished in 1949 but shortly after its formation in Budapest for political reasons and disappeared under a different name to the province to Debrecen.

From 1945 to 1975 Pátzay worked in the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, among his pupils were Imre Varga, László Marton, Judit Kemény ( 1918-2009 ), Magda Gádor and Ilka. Pátzay was in Communist Hungary is a recognized artist who received public contracts and has received many awards. Pátzay received in 1952 the Hungarian sculptor Price " Magyar Köztársaság Kiváló Művésze díj " and twice, in 1950 and 1965, the Kossuth Prize, also in 1970 the Order " flag of the People's Republic of Hungary ".

Pátzays Lenin statue was erected in 1965 on the Felvonulási place. After the political changes in 1989 it was removed there and is shown since 1993 in Szoborpark stored along with other sculptures of the communist era.

Pátzay was married in first marriage to the psychoanalyst and child psychologist Lucy P. Liebermann ( 1899-1967 ). She was one of the founding members of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society .. Liebermann had tried to emigrate to the United States, it was her but did not succeed.

Since 1945 Pátzay was married to Hertha fox, they had a son János.

Pál Pátzay was nominated posthumously for Righteous Among the Nations in 1998.

Writings

• The Hungarian painter Odon von Márffy: A modern painters, P. Gordon, Berlin 1929