VARGA, Imre
sculptor
(1 Nov. 1923, Siófok - )
1950-1956: College of Fine Arts, Budapest; masters: Sándor Mikus and Pál Pátzay. 1960: the Award of the Marx-Engels Memorial Competition; 1969: Munkácsy Award; 1971: the Award of the Art Foundation at the National Statuette Biennale in Pécs; 1973: Kossuth Award. 1975: Meritorious Artist Award; 1977: Pro-Arte Award, Budapest; the Award of the Cultural Ministry for his works erected in 1976; 1979: Outstanding Artist Award; 1982: Herder Award; 1983: member of the National Academy; the Order of Flags of the Hungarian People’s Republic; 1984: SZOT Award; 1985: the honorary citizen of Siófok; 1989: the Commanding Emblem of the Honor of Arts and Literature, France and the Officer’s Cross of the honor of the Republic of Italy; Award for the representation of Polish Culture; the honorary citizen of Hajdúböszörmény. He was a member of parliament from 1980 to 1990, the vice-president of the Patriotic Popular Front, and the president of the Fészek Art Club. A permanent exhibition has opened in Laktanya Street in Budapest, the city where he presently resides. He began his high school studies at the Cistercians of Székesfehárvár and Buda, and finished them in Szombathely. In 1937, as a high-school student he participated in collective exhibitions, in Paris, with paintings and drawings. He gained his diploma in aeronautics, at the Military Academy, and served as an aviation officer in the Second World War. After his American captivity, he returned to Hungary in 1945. In 1949 he began laboring as a factory worker in Budapest. Following his fortuitous meeting with the sculpture Pál Patzay he was admitted to the College of Fine Arts in Budapest. During his college years he participated in the 1st Hungarian Fine Arts Exhibition with a work entitled Vasmunkás /Ironworker/. His first outstanding work was the chrome steel sculpture entitled Prómétheusz, first shown in 1965, and later moved to the Open-Air Sculpture Museum of Middelheim, Antwerp. In 1967 he participated in the creative sculpture workshop held in Székesfehérvár. He was an active creator in all the fields of sculpturing (statuettes, medallions). Along side his works planned in gallery-sized scales, the most significant part of his career consists of his planning and execution of public, monumental compositions (memorials, portrait monuments, portraits, and decorative statuettes). During certain sections of his career he also produced panel paintings, graphics and tapestries. He gained keen professional attention at his debut exhibition in 1967, however only made a true name for himself, amongst the art scene of the time, with an exhibition held in his honor in Tihany, in 1972. Most of his dynamically planned sculptural works, erected in public and built in spaces, natural surroundings, and in buildings serving public purposes, were produced with montage techniques and bronze casting. The utilization, however, of the chrome steel material and technique domesticated in the 1960’s also played a prominent role in his works. Within the scope of one single work he often made use of a number of different techniques (i.e.: combinations of bronze and chrome steel, chrome steel and basalt, and bronze and wood). His sensitively modeled works, fitted into their surroundings with a diversity of sculptural components, dismissing traditional pedestals, often wittily mixing a classicist viewpoint with pop-art elements, are pervaded by a strong emotional charge. The most important characteristics of his sculptural work, which changed the perception of traditional memorial sculpturing, rarely exceeded the limits of figurative depiction, and produced with more and more vigor from the end of the 1960, was the positioning of heroes into everyday, human circumstances and the emphasis of typical human traits. The central characters of his art were the outstanding figures of history and Hungarian culture (Lenin, II. Ferenc Rákóczi, Mihály Károlyi, Béla Kun, Miklós Radnóti, Attila József, Ferenc Liszt, Béla Bartók, etc.), however he also undertook the production of a number of mythological and biblical figures (Zeus, Pallas Athena, Orpheus, Euripides and Ikarus). An important part of his career consisted of tomb memorial works. His most important statuettes (e.g.: Apokalipszis /Apocalypse/, Erőltetett menet /Forced March/, La Charogne, Babij Jar) are characterized by expressiveness and a surrealist vision of reality. One-Man Shows:
1967 • Dorottya Gallery, Budapest
1972 • Museum of Tihany, Tihany
1974 • Zacheta, Warsaw
1975 • Győr (HU) • Nyíregyháza (HU)
1976 • Műcsarnok, Budapest • Dunaújváros (HU) • Gallery of Móra Ferenc Museum, Szeged (HU) • Siófok (HU) • Gallery of Somogy, Kaposvár (HU)
1981 • People’s House, Tatabánya (HU) • Kiskunhalas (HU) • Galerie am Weidendamm, Berlin
1982 • Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna • Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
1983 • József Attila Museum, Makó (HU) • Béri-Balogh Ádám Museum, Szekszárd (HU) • Budapest, Laktanya u. (permanent exhibition)
1984 • Library, Siófok (HU) • Paks (HU) • Bázel • XLI. Biennial of Venice, Venice
1985 • Bad Kissingen • Hamburg
1986 • Vienna • Paris
1988 • Gallery of Veszprém, Veszprém (HU) • Gallery of Miskolc, Miskolc (HU)
1993 • Koller Gallery, Budapest [with Éva Kárpáti]
1996 • Kálmán Imre Museum, Siófok (HU)
1999 • Koller Gallery, Budapest Selected Group Exhibitions:
1950, 1954 • 1., 5. Hungarian Art Exhibition, Műcsarnok, Budapest
1957 • Spring Exhibition (Tavaszi Tárlat), Műcsarnok, Budapest
1967 • I. National Biennial of Small Sculpture, Pécs (HU)
1970 • IV. European Biennial of Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris • Contemporary Hungarian Art, Würzburg
1971 • Contemporary Hungarian Art, Paris • Zágráb [with Béla Kondor and Lili Ország] • Hungarian Graphic and Sculpture, Naples • New Works, Műcsarnok, Budapest • I. International Biennial of Sculpture, Műcsarnok, Budapest
1972 • Contemporary Hungarian Art, Copenhagen • Contemporary Hungarian Sculpture , Moscow
1973 • Contemporary Hungarian Art, Beograd
1974 • Contemporary Hungarian Art, Vienna
1976 • XXXVII. Biennial of Venice, Venice
1980 • XXXIX. Biennial of Venice, Venice • Art and Society, Műcsarnok, Budapest
1984 • Kunstmesse, Bazel
2001 • Sculpture – Millenial exhibition series in Mücsarnok, Műcsarnok, Budapest.
Works in Public Places:
Bears [stone, 1958, Gyöngyös (HU)]
Pigeons [stone, 1958, Hegyeshalom (HU)]
Fortuna-sign (bronze, 1958, Hess András square, Budapest)
Music listener woman (stone, 1960, Dániel road, SZOT Holiday Home, Budapest)
Sunbather Woman [bronze, 1961, TBC Welfare Centre, Hódmezővásárhely (HU)]
Swimming Woman [bronze, 1962, Hajdúszoboszló (HU)]
Recumbent Boy [bronze, 1963, Tihany (HU)]
Recumbent Female Akt [bronze, 1964, Kossuth L. University, Debrecen (HU)]
Pensive Boy (bronze, 1964, Budapest)
Attila József [bronze, 1964, JATE, Szeged (HU)]
Composition with Two Figures [limestone, 1964, Nagybátony (HU)]
Sower [aluminium, 1964, Budapest, Agricultural Exhibition, in 1973 transfered to Lajosmizse (HU)]
Iron-grid (1965 Auschwitz, Hungarian Memorial Museum)
Peacock [Chrom-steel, welded-copper, 1965, Rajka (HU)]
Snake-King [copper, 1965, Győr (HU)]
Ady-bust (marble, 1966, Ráckeve, Ady Endre Grammar School)
Ottó Korvin-bust (bronze, 1966, Budapest)
Grid-composition (concrete, 1967, KISZ-School at Amerikai road, Budapest)
Three paneltal Sisters [marble, 1967, Tihany (HU)]
Three paneltal Sisters [aluminium, 1967, Székesfehérvár (HU)]
Metal embossement [1967, Balatonarács (HU)
Madách [bronze, 1969, Salgótarján (HU)]
Táncsics (bronze, 1969, Castle, Budapest)
Veres Pálné memorial tablet (marble, bronze, 1969, Budapest)
Radnóti [bronze, 1970, Mohács, Salgótarján (HU)]
Partisan (concrete, bronze, 1971, Újpest, Budapest)
City [bronze, concrete, 1971, Salgótarján (HU)]
Professor [bronze, 1971, Debrecen (HU)]
Ice Drift-relief [chrome steel, polyester, glass, 1971, Kisköre (HU)]
Attila József-bust (bronze, 1971, Budapest)
László Rajk-relief (bronze, 1971, Rajk László street, Budapest)
The Founder [basalt, gilt chrome steel, 1972, Abbey, Tihany (HU)]
Zeus (sandstone, 1972, Budaörsi road, Budapest)
Sower [1973, Lajosmizse (HU)]
Portrait of István Nagy [bronze, 1973, Baja (HU)]
Copernicus (bronze, 1973, Warsaw)
Lenin-memorial [bronze, 1974, Mohács (HU), disassembled]
Mother and Daughter [bronze, 1974, Vác (HU]
Heroic memorial - 1944 (polyester, 1974, Oslo)
Béla Czóbel-bust [bronze, 1975, Czóbel Museum, Szentendre (HU)]
Fleeting Time [bronze, 1975, Siófok (HU)]
Gyula Kulich memorial [bronze, copperplate, 1975, Békéscsaba (HU)]
Mihály Károlyi-memorial (bronze, 1975, Kossuth square, Budapest)
Liberation memorial [concrete, lead, copper, 1975, Kaposvár (HU)]
Liberation memorial [bronze, concrete, 1975, Diósjenő (HU)]
Dancers [bronze, marble, 1975, Harkány (HU)]
István Vas (bronze, 1975, Budapest)
Worker [bronze, 1976, Százhalombatta (HU)]
Zoltán Kodály [bronze, 1976, Pécs (HU)]
Pallas Athene (welded chrome steel, stone, 1976, Atheneum Press, Budapest)
Tomb of a stewardess (bronze, 1976, Budapest)
Béla Balázs [bronze, 1976, Szeged (HU)]
Derkovits [bronze, 1977, Szombathely (HU)]
Keepers of the Life [bronze, 1977, Szombathely (HU)]
Béla Czóbel [bronze, 1977, Szentendre (HU)]
Ady-relief (bronze, 1977, 5. distr., Veres Pálné street, Budapest)
Worker (chrome steel, 1977, Kőbánya, Budapest)
István Szőnyi-bust (bronze, 1977, 5. distr., Markó street, Budapest)
Liberation memorial (bronze, 1977, Aden [Jemen])
Tomb of József Darvas (chrome steel, stone, 1977, Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest)
Glider Ikarus [chrome steel, basalt, 1978, Győr (HU)]
Prometheus [chrome steel, basalt, 1978, Szekszárd (HU)]
Radnóti (bronze, 1979, Bor [YU])
Zsigmond Móricz [bronze, 1979, Tiszacsécse (HU)]
Tomb of Tibor Déry (chrome steel, 1979, Cemetery of Farkasrét, Budapest)
Ferenc Liszt-bust [bronze, 1980, Mecseknádasd (HU)]
Portrait of Lajos Hatvany [bronze, 1980, Hatvan (HU)]
Péter Veres-bust [bronze, 1980, Debrecen (HU)]
Portrait of Attila József [bronze, 1980, Makó (HU)]
Bartók – Kodály memorial [bronze, 1980, Dunaújváros (HU)]
Orpheus and Euridice [bronze, chrome steel, 1980, Tatabánya (HU)]
Wonder Deers, Virgin Mary, Dowager of Hungarians, Saint Stephen (red copper embossing, red copper and gold-leaf, bronze, chrome steel, 1980, Vatican, Hungarian Chapel, Rome)
Tomb of Zoltán Várkonyi (1980, Cemetery of Farkasrét, Budapest)
Tomb of Lajos Básti (chrome steel, 1980, Cemetery of Farkasrét, Budapest)
Facade ornament [wood, 1981, Attila József Museum, Makó (HU)]
Bartók [bronze, 1981, Budapest, Garden of the Bartók Memorial House
Makó (HU)]
Bartók (bronze, 1982, Paris)
Lenin [bronze, 1982, Gödöllő (HU), disassembled]
László Orbán-relief [bronze, marble, 1982, Verőcemaros (HU)]
Tomb of Hanna Honthy (chrome steel, 1982, Cemetery of Farkasrét, Budapest)
Kodály (bronze, 1982, Europe park, Castle, Budapest)
Birds (chrome steel, iron, 1982, Budapest)
Ferenc Liszt [chrome steel, welded copper, 1983, Bishop’s Palace, Pécs (HU)]
Wine seller (bronze, 1983, Boráros square, Budapest)
Drinking vessel-Paraphrase (welded copper, 1983, Boráros square, Budapest)
Louis the Great [bronze, 1983, Apostag (HU)]
Béla Kondor (bronze, 1983, Havanna road, Budapest)
Lenin [bronze, 1983, Vác (HU), disassembled]
Béla Czóbel-bust (bronze, 1983, 5. distr., Október 6. street, Budapest)
Portrait of Zoltán Várkonyi (bronze, 1984, Vígszínház, Budapest)
Professors [bronze, 1984, DOTE, Debrecen (HU)]
Martyr-memorial [bronze, 1985, Kaposvár (HU) disassembled in 1990, partly reassembled in 1996, Siófok (HU)]
György Lukács (bronze, 1985, Saint Stephen park, Budapest)
Saint Elisabeth and Louis-equestrian stattue [bronze, 1985, Sárospatak (HU)]
Birds (chrome steel, 1986, Municipal Salvage Works, Budapest)
Waitings (bronze, 1986, Óbuda, Budapest)
Eagle and Snake (chrome steel, 1986, Bad-Neustadt)
Memory of 1919 (Béla Kun-memorial) (chrome steel, bronze, 1986, Vérmező, Budapest, past 1990 disassembled, reassembled in the Statue Park of Budatétény)
Raul Wallenberg (bronze, granite, 1987, Szilágyi Erzsébet fasor, Budapest)
Olof Palme-memorial (limestone, granite, 1987, Olof Palme-prom, Budapest)
Birth of Venus [bronze, chrome steel, 1988, Siófok (HU)]
Lőrinc Szabó [bronze, chrome steel, 1988, Avas Building Estate, Miskolc (HU)]
Radnóti-memorial (bronze, wood-version, 1988, Überlingen)
La Charogne [wrought iron, chrome steel, 1989, Mezőberény (HU)]
Martyr-memorial (chrome steel, 1990, Synagogue of Dohány street, Budapest)
Memorial of World War II. [1990, Zagyvarékas (HU)]
Ferenc Rákóczi II. (bronze, granite, 1991, Bad Kissingen)
The Clothing of the Bride (bronze, chrome steel, 1991, Kurparklinik, Bad Neustadt)
Saint Florian [bronze, chrome steel, 1991, Siófok (HU)]
Memorial of World War II. [bronze, chrome steel, 1991, Hajdúböszörmény (HU)]
Tomb of György Kálmán (1991, Cemetery of Farkasrét, Budapest)
Memorial of World War II. [Jacob Fights with the Angel) (bronze, chrome steel, 1992, Hajdúdorog (HU)]
Saint Ladislaus [bronze, 1992, Szabolcs (HU)]
Women with umbrellas (bronze, two-figures version, 1992, Los Angeles)
Virgin Mary, Queen of the World [bronze, copperplate, 1993, Roman Catholic Church, Zalabaksa (HU)]
Ferenc Erkel-relief (bronze, 1993, Diana street, Budapest)
Saint Stephen (bronze, 1993, Cathedral, Aachen)
Suzanne and Elders, Jacob Fights with the Angel, Genesis, Memorial Gobelin of Bishop Vilmos Apor (bronze, Gobelins, 1993, Bad Neustadt, Rhön Klinik, Herz und Gefassklinik)
Béla Bartók (bronze, 1995, Brussels)
János Arany and his teacher-mates [bronze, 1996, Nagykőrös (HU)]
Bor-Kalán [bronze, 1996, Nagykőrös (HU)]
Mobil sculpture with water (chrome steel, 1996, Brückenau)
Saint Ladislaus-bust (gilt bronze, 1996, Aachen)
Imre Kálmán [bronze, chrome steel, marble, 1997, Siófok (HU)]
Elephant (bronze, 1997, Camping, Gitzenweiler-Hof Lindau)
Peter Heil-memorial fountain (bronze, 1997, Bad Kissingen)
Pope Sylvestre (bronze, 2001, 11. distr., Church of Saint Gellért, Budapest). Works in Public Collections:
Antwerpen
Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest
Middelheim Outdoor Sculpture Museum
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest. Bibliography:
Dutka, M.: Fiatal művészek az Ernst Múzeumban, Irodalmi Újság, 1955. június 18.
Láncz, S.: (cat. intro., Kulturális Kapcsolatok Intézete Kiállítóterem, Budapest, 1967)
Frank, J.: ~nél, Élet és Irodalom, 1967. szeptember 2.
Rózsa, Gy.: (cat. intro., Museum of Tihany, 1972)
Timár, Á.: ~ szobrai Tihanyban, Kritika, 1972/10.
Szabó, J.: ~, Budapest, 1973
Vadas, J.: Mindentudó szobrász, Művészet, 1973/4.
Harangozó, M.: ~, Budapest, 1977
Rózsa, Gy.: Négy portré, Budapest, 1977
Művészet ~száma, 1979/7.
Bereczky, L.: (cat. intro., Budapest Galéria, 1983)
Kratochwill, M.: (cat. intro., Budapest Galéria, 1985)
~ (cat., Artforum Bad Kissingen, Kunsthalle, 1985)
Menyhárt, L.: Szellemidézés. Életmű az állandó nyilvánosságnak, Művészet, 1985/10.
Wehner, T.: Köztéri szobraink, Budapest, 1986
Harangozó, M.: ~, Budapest, 1989
Kovács, P.: A tegnap szobrai. Fejezetek a magyar szobrászat közelmúltjából, Szombathely, 1992
Nickel, Ch.: Beszélgetések ~vel, Budapest, 1995.
Films:
Műteremlátogatás ~ szobrászművésznél, Magyar Televízió, 1973
Házigazda ~, Magyar Televízió, 1977
Műteremben, Magyar Televízió, 1984. augusztus 19.
(Translation: Vladimir Végh)
sculptor
(1 Nov. 1923, Siófok - )
1950-1956: College of Fine Arts, Budapest; masters: Sándor Mikus and Pál Pátzay. 1960: the Award of the Marx-Engels Memorial Competition; 1969: Munkácsy Award; 1971: the Award of the Art Foundation at the National Statuette Biennale in Pécs; 1973: Kossuth Award. 1975: Meritorious Artist Award; 1977: Pro-Arte Award, Budapest; the Award of the Cultural Ministry for his works erected in 1976; 1979: Outstanding Artist Award; 1982: Herder Award; 1983: member of the National Academy; the Order of Flags of the Hungarian People’s Republic; 1984: SZOT Award; 1985: the honorary citizen of Siófok; 1989: the Commanding Emblem of the Honor of Arts and Literature, France and the Officer’s Cross of the honor of the Republic of Italy; Award for the representation of Polish Culture; the honorary citizen of Hajdúböszörmény. He was a member of parliament from 1980 to 1990, the vice-president of the Patriotic Popular Front, and the president of the Fészek Art Club. A permanent exhibition has opened in Laktanya Street in Budapest, the city where he presently resides. He began his high school studies at the Cistercians of Székesfehárvár and Buda, and finished them in Szombathely. In 1937, as a high-school student he participated in collective exhibitions, in Paris, with paintings and drawings. He gained his diploma in aeronautics, at the Military Academy, and served as an aviation officer in the Second World War. After his American captivity, he returned to Hungary in 1945. In 1949 he began laboring as a factory worker in Budapest. Following his fortuitous meeting with the sculpture Pál Patzay he was admitted to the College of Fine Arts in Budapest. During his college years he participated in the 1st Hungarian Fine Arts Exhibition with a work entitled Vasmunkás /Ironworker/. His first outstanding work was the chrome steel sculpture entitled Prómétheusz, first shown in 1965, and later moved to the Open-Air Sculpture Museum of Middelheim, Antwerp. In 1967 he participated in the creative sculpture workshop held in Székesfehérvár. He was an active creator in all the fields of sculpturing (statuettes, medallions). Along side his works planned in gallery-sized scales, the most significant part of his career consists of his planning and execution of public, monumental compositions (memorials, portrait monuments, portraits, and decorative statuettes). During certain sections of his career he also produced panel paintings, graphics and tapestries. He gained keen professional attention at his debut exhibition in 1967, however only made a true name for himself, amongst the art scene of the time, with an exhibition held in his honor in Tihany, in 1972. Most of his dynamically planned sculptural works, erected in public and built in spaces, natural surroundings, and in buildings serving public purposes, were produced with montage techniques and bronze casting. The utilization, however, of the chrome steel material and technique domesticated in the 1960’s also played a prominent role in his works. Within the scope of one single work he often made use of a number of different techniques (i.e.: combinations of bronze and chrome steel, chrome steel and basalt, and bronze and wood). His sensitively modeled works, fitted into their surroundings with a diversity of sculptural components, dismissing traditional pedestals, often wittily mixing a classicist viewpoint with pop-art elements, are pervaded by a strong emotional charge. The most important characteristics of his sculptural work, which changed the perception of traditional memorial sculpturing, rarely exceeded the limits of figurative depiction, and produced with more and more vigor from the end of the 1960, was the positioning of heroes into everyday, human circumstances and the emphasis of typical human traits. The central characters of his art were the outstanding figures of history and Hungarian culture (Lenin, II. Ferenc Rákóczi, Mihály Károlyi, Béla Kun, Miklós Radnóti, Attila József, Ferenc Liszt, Béla Bartók, etc.), however he also undertook the production of a number of mythological and biblical figures (Zeus, Pallas Athena, Orpheus, Euripides and Ikarus). An important part of his career consisted of tomb memorial works. His most important statuettes (e.g.: Apokalipszis /Apocalypse/, Erőltetett menet /Forced March/, La Charogne, Babij Jar) are characterized by expressiveness and a surrealist vision of reality. One-Man Shows:
1967 • Dorottya Gallery, Budapest
1972 • Museum of Tihany, Tihany
1974 • Zacheta, Warsaw
1975 • Győr (HU) • Nyíregyháza (HU)
1976 • Műcsarnok, Budapest • Dunaújváros (HU) • Gallery of Móra Ferenc Museum, Szeged (HU) • Siófok (HU) • Gallery of Somogy, Kaposvár (HU)
1981 • People’s House, Tatabánya (HU) • Kiskunhalas (HU) • Galerie am Weidendamm, Berlin
1982 • Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna • Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
1983 • József Attila Museum, Makó (HU) • Béri-Balogh Ádám Museum, Szekszárd (HU) • Budapest, Laktanya u. (permanent exhibition)
1984 • Library, Siófok (HU) • Paks (HU) • Bázel • XLI. Biennial of Venice, Venice
1985 • Bad Kissingen • Hamburg
1986 • Vienna • Paris
1988 • Gallery of Veszprém, Veszprém (HU) • Gallery of Miskolc, Miskolc (HU)
1993 • Koller Gallery, Budapest [with Éva Kárpáti]
1996 • Kálmán Imre Museum, Siófok (HU)
1999 • Koller Gallery, Budapest Selected Group Exhibitions:
1950, 1954 • 1., 5. Hungarian Art Exhibition, Műcsarnok, Budapest
1957 • Spring Exhibition (Tavaszi Tárlat), Műcsarnok, Budapest
1967 • I. National Biennial of Small Sculpture, Pécs (HU)
1970 • IV. European Biennial of Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris • Contemporary Hungarian Art, Würzburg
1971 • Contemporary Hungarian Art, Paris • Zágráb [with Béla Kondor and Lili Ország] • Hungarian Graphic and Sculpture, Naples • New Works, Műcsarnok, Budapest • I. International Biennial of Sculpture, Műcsarnok, Budapest
1972 • Contemporary Hungarian Art, Copenhagen • Contemporary Hungarian Sculpture , Moscow
1973 • Contemporary Hungarian Art, Beograd
1974 • Contemporary Hungarian Art, Vienna
1976 • XXXVII. Biennial of Venice, Venice
1980 • XXXIX. Biennial of Venice, Venice • Art and Society, Műcsarnok, Budapest
1984 • Kunstmesse, Bazel
2001 • Sculpture – Millenial exhibition series in Mücsarnok, Műcsarnok, Budapest.
Works in Public Places:
Bears [stone, 1958, Gyöngyös (HU)]
Pigeons [stone, 1958, Hegyeshalom (HU)]
Fortuna-sign (bronze, 1958, Hess András square, Budapest)
Music listener woman (stone, 1960, Dániel road, SZOT Holiday Home, Budapest)
Sunbather Woman [bronze, 1961, TBC Welfare Centre, Hódmezővásárhely (HU)]
Swimming Woman [bronze, 1962, Hajdúszoboszló (HU)]
Recumbent Boy [bronze, 1963, Tihany (HU)]
Recumbent Female Akt [bronze, 1964, Kossuth L. University, Debrecen (HU)]
Pensive Boy (bronze, 1964, Budapest)
Attila József [bronze, 1964, JATE, Szeged (HU)]
Composition with Two Figures [limestone, 1964, Nagybátony (HU)]
Sower [aluminium, 1964, Budapest, Agricultural Exhibition, in 1973 transfered to Lajosmizse (HU)]
Iron-grid (1965 Auschwitz, Hungarian Memorial Museum)
Peacock [Chrom-steel, welded-copper, 1965, Rajka (HU)]
Snake-King [copper, 1965, Győr (HU)]
Ady-bust (marble, 1966, Ráckeve, Ady Endre Grammar School)
Ottó Korvin-bust (bronze, 1966, Budapest)
Grid-composition (concrete, 1967, KISZ-School at Amerikai road, Budapest)
Three paneltal Sisters [marble, 1967, Tihany (HU)]
Three paneltal Sisters [aluminium, 1967, Székesfehérvár (HU)]
Metal embossement [1967, Balatonarács (HU)
Madách [bronze, 1969, Salgótarján (HU)]
Táncsics (bronze, 1969, Castle, Budapest)
Veres Pálné memorial tablet (marble, bronze, 1969, Budapest)
Radnóti [bronze, 1970, Mohács, Salgótarján (HU)]
Partisan (concrete, bronze, 1971, Újpest, Budapest)
City [bronze, concrete, 1971, Salgótarján (HU)]
Professor [bronze, 1971, Debrecen (HU)]
Ice Drift-relief [chrome steel, polyester, glass, 1971, Kisköre (HU)]
Attila József-bust (bronze, 1971, Budapest)
László Rajk-relief (bronze, 1971, Rajk László street, Budapest)
The Founder [basalt, gilt chrome steel, 1972, Abbey, Tihany (HU)]
Zeus (sandstone, 1972, Budaörsi road, Budapest)
Sower [1973, Lajosmizse (HU)]
Portrait of István Nagy [bronze, 1973, Baja (HU)]
Copernicus (bronze, 1973, Warsaw)
Lenin-memorial [bronze, 1974, Mohács (HU), disassembled]
Mother and Daughter [bronze, 1974, Vác (HU]
Heroic memorial - 1944 (polyester, 1974, Oslo)
Béla Czóbel-bust [bronze, 1975, Czóbel Museum, Szentendre (HU)]
Fleeting Time [bronze, 1975, Siófok (HU)]
Gyula Kulich memorial [bronze, copperplate, 1975, Békéscsaba (HU)]
Mihály Károlyi-memorial (bronze, 1975, Kossuth square, Budapest)
Liberation memorial [concrete, lead, copper, 1975, Kaposvár (HU)]
Liberation memorial [bronze, concrete, 1975, Diósjenő (HU)]
Dancers [bronze, marble, 1975, Harkány (HU)]
István Vas (bronze, 1975, Budapest)
Worker [bronze, 1976, Százhalombatta (HU)]
Zoltán Kodály [bronze, 1976, Pécs (HU)]
Pallas Athene (welded chrome steel, stone, 1976, Atheneum Press, Budapest)
Tomb of a stewardess (bronze, 1976, Budapest)
Béla Balázs [bronze, 1976, Szeged (HU)]
Derkovits [bronze, 1977, Szombathely (HU)]
Keepers of the Life [bronze, 1977, Szombathely (HU)]
Béla Czóbel [bronze, 1977, Szentendre (HU)]
Ady-relief (bronze, 1977, 5. distr., Veres Pálné street, Budapest)
Worker (chrome steel, 1977, Kőbánya, Budapest)
István Szőnyi-bust (bronze, 1977, 5. distr., Markó street, Budapest)
Liberation memorial (bronze, 1977, Aden [Jemen])
Tomb of József Darvas (chrome steel, stone, 1977, Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest)
Glider Ikarus [chrome steel, basalt, 1978, Győr (HU)]
Prometheus [chrome steel, basalt, 1978, Szekszárd (HU)]
Radnóti (bronze, 1979, Bor [YU])
Zsigmond Móricz [bronze, 1979, Tiszacsécse (HU)]
Tomb of Tibor Déry (chrome steel, 1979, Cemetery of Farkasrét, Budapest)
Ferenc Liszt-bust [bronze, 1980, Mecseknádasd (HU)]
Portrait of Lajos Hatvany [bronze, 1980, Hatvan (HU)]
Péter Veres-bust [bronze, 1980, Debrecen (HU)]
Portrait of Attila József [bronze, 1980, Makó (HU)]
Bartók – Kodály memorial [bronze, 1980, Dunaújváros (HU)]
Orpheus and Euridice [bronze, chrome steel, 1980, Tatabánya (HU)]
Wonder Deers, Virgin Mary, Dowager of Hungarians, Saint Stephen (red copper embossing, red copper and gold-leaf, bronze, chrome steel, 1980, Vatican, Hungarian Chapel, Rome)
Tomb of Zoltán Várkonyi (1980, Cemetery of Farkasrét, Budapest)
Tomb of Lajos Básti (chrome steel, 1980, Cemetery of Farkasrét, Budapest)
Facade ornament [wood, 1981, Attila József Museum, Makó (HU)]
Bartók [bronze, 1981, Budapest, Garden of the Bartók Memorial House
Makó (HU)]
Bartók (bronze, 1982, Paris)
Lenin [bronze, 1982, Gödöllő (HU), disassembled]
László Orbán-relief [bronze, marble, 1982, Verőcemaros (HU)]
Tomb of Hanna Honthy (chrome steel, 1982, Cemetery of Farkasrét, Budapest)
Kodály (bronze, 1982, Europe park, Castle, Budapest)
Birds (chrome steel, iron, 1982, Budapest)
Ferenc Liszt [chrome steel, welded copper, 1983, Bishop’s Palace, Pécs (HU)]
Wine seller (bronze, 1983, Boráros square, Budapest)
Drinking vessel-Paraphrase (welded copper, 1983, Boráros square, Budapest)
Louis the Great [bronze, 1983, Apostag (HU)]
Béla Kondor (bronze, 1983, Havanna road, Budapest)
Lenin [bronze, 1983, Vác (HU), disassembled]
Béla Czóbel-bust (bronze, 1983, 5. distr., Október 6. street, Budapest)
Portrait of Zoltán Várkonyi (bronze, 1984, Vígszínház, Budapest)
Professors [bronze, 1984, DOTE, Debrecen (HU)]
Martyr-memorial [bronze, 1985, Kaposvár (HU) disassembled in 1990, partly reassembled in 1996, Siófok (HU)]
György Lukács (bronze, 1985, Saint Stephen park, Budapest)
Saint Elisabeth and Louis-equestrian stattue [bronze, 1985, Sárospatak (HU)]
Birds (chrome steel, 1986, Municipal Salvage Works, Budapest)
Waitings (bronze, 1986, Óbuda, Budapest)
Eagle and Snake (chrome steel, 1986, Bad-Neustadt)
Memory of 1919 (Béla Kun-memorial) (chrome steel, bronze, 1986, Vérmező, Budapest, past 1990 disassembled, reassembled in the Statue Park of Budatétény)
Raul Wallenberg (bronze, granite, 1987, Szilágyi Erzsébet fasor, Budapest)
Olof Palme-memorial (limestone, granite, 1987, Olof Palme-prom, Budapest)
Birth of Venus [bronze, chrome steel, 1988, Siófok (HU)]
Lőrinc Szabó [bronze, chrome steel, 1988, Avas Building Estate, Miskolc (HU)]
Radnóti-memorial (bronze, wood-version, 1988, Überlingen)
La Charogne [wrought iron, chrome steel, 1989, Mezőberény (HU)]
Martyr-memorial (chrome steel, 1990, Synagogue of Dohány street, Budapest)
Memorial of World War II. [1990, Zagyvarékas (HU)]
Ferenc Rákóczi II. (bronze, granite, 1991, Bad Kissingen)
The Clothing of the Bride (bronze, chrome steel, 1991, Kurparklinik, Bad Neustadt)
Saint Florian [bronze, chrome steel, 1991, Siófok (HU)]
Memorial of World War II. [bronze, chrome steel, 1991, Hajdúböszörmény (HU)]
Tomb of György Kálmán (1991, Cemetery of Farkasrét, Budapest)
Memorial of World War II. [Jacob Fights with the Angel) (bronze, chrome steel, 1992, Hajdúdorog (HU)]
Saint Ladislaus [bronze, 1992, Szabolcs (HU)]
Women with umbrellas (bronze, two-figures version, 1992, Los Angeles)
Virgin Mary, Queen of the World [bronze, copperplate, 1993, Roman Catholic Church, Zalabaksa (HU)]
Ferenc Erkel-relief (bronze, 1993, Diana street, Budapest)
Saint Stephen (bronze, 1993, Cathedral, Aachen)
Suzanne and Elders, Jacob Fights with the Angel, Genesis, Memorial Gobelin of Bishop Vilmos Apor (bronze, Gobelins, 1993, Bad Neustadt, Rhön Klinik, Herz und Gefassklinik)
Béla Bartók (bronze, 1995, Brussels)
János Arany and his teacher-mates [bronze, 1996, Nagykőrös (HU)]
Bor-Kalán [bronze, 1996, Nagykőrös (HU)]
Mobil sculpture with water (chrome steel, 1996, Brückenau)
Saint Ladislaus-bust (gilt bronze, 1996, Aachen)
Imre Kálmán [bronze, chrome steel, marble, 1997, Siófok (HU)]
Elephant (bronze, 1997, Camping, Gitzenweiler-Hof Lindau)
Peter Heil-memorial fountain (bronze, 1997, Bad Kissingen)
Pope Sylvestre (bronze, 2001, 11. distr., Church of Saint Gellért, Budapest). Works in Public Collections:
Antwerpen
Municipal Picture Gallery, Budapest
Middelheim Outdoor Sculpture Museum
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest. Bibliography:
Dutka, M.: Fiatal művészek az Ernst Múzeumban, Irodalmi Újság, 1955. június 18.
Láncz, S.: (cat. intro., Kulturális Kapcsolatok Intézete Kiállítóterem, Budapest, 1967)
Frank, J.: ~nél, Élet és Irodalom, 1967. szeptember 2.
Rózsa, Gy.: (cat. intro., Museum of Tihany, 1972)
Timár, Á.: ~ szobrai Tihanyban, Kritika, 1972/10.
Szabó, J.: ~, Budapest, 1973
Vadas, J.: Mindentudó szobrász, Művészet, 1973/4.
Harangozó, M.: ~, Budapest, 1977
Rózsa, Gy.: Négy portré, Budapest, 1977
Művészet ~száma, 1979/7.
Bereczky, L.: (cat. intro., Budapest Galéria, 1983)
Kratochwill, M.: (cat. intro., Budapest Galéria, 1985)
~ (cat., Artforum Bad Kissingen, Kunsthalle, 1985)
Menyhárt, L.: Szellemidézés. Életmű az állandó nyilvánosságnak, Művészet, 1985/10.
Wehner, T.: Köztéri szobraink, Budapest, 1986
Harangozó, M.: ~, Budapest, 1989
Kovács, P.: A tegnap szobrai. Fejezetek a magyar szobrászat közelmúltjából, Szombathely, 1992
Nickel, Ch.: Beszélgetések ~vel, Budapest, 1995.
Films:
Műteremlátogatás ~ szobrászművésznél, Magyar Televízió, 1973
Házigazda ~, Magyar Televízió, 1977
Műteremben, Magyar Televízió, 1984. augusztus 19.
(Translation: Vladimir Végh)
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