I was born in Kolozsvár (Transylvania) and grew up trilingual (Hungarian, Romanian, German). I currently live and work in Ulm, southern Germany.
EDUCATION
My formal education began at the age of 14 when I attended the local art school in my hometown of Várad. We sometimes had up to sixteen extra art lessons a week for the next six years and received a classical, thorough pre-academic education. This was followed by academic training in Stuttgart and Paris.
In 1991 I went to New York and studied interior design and graphic design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the School of Visual Arts. The ten years in New York were very exciting, extremely enriching and intense, sometimes hard and difficult, but I would not want to miss those years.
MENTORS
Professors I remember fondly for their patience, support and commitment were Moritz Baumgartl, Egon Lustner, K. R. H. Sönderborg and Sotirios Michou in Stuttgart, Wolfgang Gäfgen in Paris, Nick Politis, Jim Vaughn, Joan Melnick and Milton Glaser in New York.
MY MEDIUM
In spring 2024 I started doing linoleum prints because I realized that most of my ideas could be reduced to a clear, simple, direct black and white. Since I am pretty impatient and want to see the results as quckly as possible this is the medium of choice for the moment. Printing has also other practical advantages over painting: it is cleaner and healthier work, I can make multiples even in different phases, I can let them go much easier because I still have copies left. I believe everybody should be able to buy affordable art, since few people have the money or the space to acquire and hang large work.
PROCESS
My main concern is a ballanced composition. I make small rough sketches, but many images emerge from the process, during the actual manual work. As a daily finger exercise, I draw pencil portraits. During my travels, I photograph and sketch a lot. During the years I must have flled more than 200 sketchbooks.
ARTISTS WHO HAVE INSPIRED ME
I am particularly fascinated by the mixed media of the old Flemish and German masters. My favorite art movements are the early Renaissance, Mannerism, the so-called “primitive” Flemish, who are anything but primitive, the German Renaissance, and the experimental European avant-garde of the early 20th century.
Painters never create in a vacuum. The short list of my favorites: Bronzino, Pontormo, Parmigianino, Piero di Cosimo, Leonardo, Holbein, Grünewald, van Eyck, Bosch, Hans Baldung Grien, Velasquez, Moroni, Goya, Ingres, Ensor, Monet, Degas, Soutine, Utrillo, Beckman, Max Ernst, Dada, Surrealism, Cubism, Picabia, de Chirico, Balthus, Dix, Schad, Grosz, Polke, Tübke, the Berlin School of the 80s, Neo Rauch, Garouste, Clemente, Chia….
WORK IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Dr. J. Duhl, Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S.A.
J. Sinko, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
H. Byrum, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.
R. Okada, Tokyo, Japan
L. Buda, Haifa, Israel
D. Cirnu, Szentendre, Ungarn
D. Feldhusen, Bremen/Ritterhude, Deutschland
A. und E. Dull, Szentendre, Ungarn
A. Viannen, Ew Ter Aar, NL
V. Weißmann, Ulm, Deutschland
A-M. Oelberg, Heiligenberg, Österreich
A. Kranyak, Salem, Deutschland
J. und A. Liebenwein, Stuttgart, Deutschland
L. Liebenwein, Heidelberg, Deutschland
R.M. Urmetzer, Stuttgart, Deutschland
M. Trenkler, Stuttgart, Deutschland
J. Klemmer, Kirchheim Teck, Deutschland
D. Hähner, Altheim, Deutschland
Dr. D. Barth, Ulm, Deutschland
Dr. B. Lerrach, Ulm, Deutschland
Dr. B. Tümmers, Ulm, Deutschland
Dr. O. Ritz, Ulm, Deutschland
Dr. L. Tamulionyte, Ulm, Deutschland
Dr. S. Arland, Frankfurt am Main
Chr. Droste, Ulm, Deutschland
Chr. Ranz, Ulm, Deutschland
Dr. D. Engel, Ulm, Deutschland
H. de Gilde, Ulm, Deutschland
Dr. Chr. Savu-Krohn, Augsburg, Deutschland
D. und A. Modick, Illerberg, Deutschland
R. Schneider, Ulm, Deutschland
F. Kiss, Ulm, Deutschland
S. Hödl, Deutschland
A. Fiolek, Leipheim, Deutschland
L. Nemes, Ulm, Deutschland
A. Szwedo, Ulm, Deutschland
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2024 December, linocuts, Window Gallery K.G., ULm
2024 April, Painting, solo exhibition K.G. Gallery, Ulm
2023 October-November, Painting, solo exhibition Artists Guild, Ulm
2023 September, Group Exhibition: The Nude in Art, Artists Guild, Ulm
2023, June, Solo Exhibition: Portrait, Artists Guild, Ulm
2022 September, Painting, Solo Exhibition Artists Guild, Ulm
2017 Between Biscotte & Baguette, Haus der Begegnung Ulm
2014 Neo-mannerism, Painting, Galerie Remax, Ulm
2013 Haus der Wirtschaft, Painting, Solo Exhibition, Ulm
2012 Kunstverein Neu-Ulm, Group Exhibition
2011 Kunstverein Neu-Ulm, Group Exhibition
2006 Kornhaus Keller, New York Portraits and the memory of immortality, Ulm
2002 Solo exhibition: New York Memories, watercolors, portraits, ceramics, Atelier Keramik Neu-Ulm
1997 Steel and Canvas, Hope Street Gallery, New York
1990 Mannerism is a must! Stuttgart District Court
1988 Neo Mannerism, Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart