Hungary Contemporary art
Margit Balla is a Hungarian artist, graphic artist, illustrator, director, stage designer and costume designer.
She studied typography at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest, mainly making posters, book illustrations, later working more and more with pictorial graphics. In her posters Margit Balla combines impressions from old prints with contemporary trends such as pop art. Her figurative compositions are easily recognizable by her special surrealistic drawing style.
Since 2000, Margit Balla has been working as a production designer for the Budapest Puppet Theater.
Esteban Fekete was a Hungarian, German, and Argentine painter. He worked and experimented in different techniques - color woodcuts, oil paintings on canvas, wood or organelite. In his paintings we see the world of people, animals and their environment.
André Kertész, born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.
Ferenc Kóka is a Hungarian painter.
Kóka graduated from the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts. From 1969 he was one of the first residents of the new artist colony of Szentendre and lived there with his wife until his death in 1997. In 1992, together with Attila Czai, he reorganized the Szentendre Fine Arts Association with the aim of protecting the values of the Hungarian artistic past, preserving an important heritage and supporting original creative and theoretical-artistic endeavors.
Ferenc Koka was the recipient of the highest Hungarian state award, the Mihály Munkácsi Prize.
Attila Kovács is a Hungarian-German graphic artist.
He studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, emigrated to West Germany and graduated from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.
Kovacs created a unique artistic language he called "Frame of Reference" or "Transmuting Plasticity," in which he constructed his own system of non-Euclidean sequential geometric abstraction. Kovacs has had many international solo and group exhibitions.
Karoly Lengyel is a Hungarian artist who worked in Düsseldorf, Germany.
He graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, then studied postgraduate studies at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. Lengyel painted semi-abstract paintings filled with understatement and otherworldliness.
Andras Markos is a Romanian, Hungarian and German abstractionist, graphic designer and performance artist.
Andras studied fine arts at the Romanian Academy of Fine Arts, then worked for many years as a graphic designer, became a curator of medieval church art and a production designer for the Hungarian State Theater.
In 1980, Markos emigrated to Germany, also working in Vienna. By 1981, Andras' exhibitions had traveled throughout Europe and America, and he had established himself as an internationally renowned artist. He also founded several art galleries.
Markos' work is based on abstract expressionism and conceptual art. He often worked on thematic series and incorporated words and calligraphic ideas as well as collages into his images. Marcos worked in many techniques including painting on canvas and paper, lithography, silkscreen, etching and ceramics.
Dóra Maurer is a Hungarian visual artist whose work has spanned a 50-year career. She works in almost every medium, from film and photography, to painting, performance, and sculpture. Principally achieving recognition in the 1970s with avant-garde work, Maurer has developed her art career from works with contemporary and modern influences that have been shown worldwide. Her art is based on mathematical and complex system processes. Most of Maurer's work follows the theme of showing options to the viewer and what the viewer can do with those options. Many of her works break down simple actions so the viewer can really view the piece as movement, not a photograph of movement. Dóra Maurer has in addition been a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Budapest and a curator.
Alfred Tibor was a Holocaust survivor and sculptor. His artwork can be found in nearly 500 private collections and museums throughout the world, including the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem.
Tibor has received a lifetime achievement award from the Liturgical Art Guild, an Arts Freedom Award, and has been inducted into the Ohio Senior Citizens Hall of Fame. He also won a 2005 Ohioana Pegasus Award.
