Imre Varga

Imre Varga ( born 1 November 1923 in Siófok ) is a Hungarian sculptor, painter, designer and graphic artist.

Life

Even in school Vargas drawings were shown in small exhibitions. But first studied Varga aeronautics at the Military Academy in Budapest and completed his studies with a diploma. During World War II he served as an air force officer. In 1945, he returned from captivity back to Hungary. Henceforth, Varga turned to the visual arts. He studied from 1950 to 1956 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest with Sándor Mikus and Pál Pátzay 1956 and made his statements. In his subsequent study trips, he also came into western countries.

Since Varga is active in all areas of the sculpture. It has small statues and coins, as well as produced monumental works for public spaces. He also worked as a painter, graphic artist and designer.

With its statue of "Iron Workers " he participated in the first "Hungarian Fine Arts Exhibition " in part, his first show ever. His first highly acclaimed work was his "Prometheus" in 1965. During the 1970s, he broke away from the usual in communist countries Monumentalism. Meanwhile, his work ranging palette of Lenin statues on Holocaust sculptures to statues of Francis II Rákóczi, Raoul Wallenberg, Sir Winston Churchill and Béla Bartók up to Adenauer and de Gaulle. Approximately 300 of his works can be seen today in nine countries, including Germany. After the fall of his Béla Kun group was from 1986 "disposed of", along with the communist monumental sculptures of other sculptors to the outskirts of Budapest in the Szoborpark, it was, however, " the only still from the time before 1989, the many Budapest you back in the downtown would bring. "

Exhibitions

From 15 August to 27 September 1981 was the Imre Varga Exhibition in Berlin -Mitte in the gallery at Willow Dam in Friedrichstrasse instead. Organizer was the center for art exhibitions of the GDR. ( Catalog: http://d-nb.info/942022440 ) In 1984 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale. In Óbuda, a district of Budapest, shows his " Imre Varga Museum " in a pretty Old - Buda house with garden in a permanent exhibition of the artist 's life's work, with public sculpture erected in copy and shrinks to see.

Honors

In 1973, he won the " Kossuth Prize ", 1982, he received the " Herder Prize " of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in 1985 awarded him Siófok honorary citizenship as the first honorary citizen of his native city and in 2002 the Federal Republic of Germany awarded him the Order of Merit 1st Class.