Szász Endre

Fülszöveg

« I think he is one of the greatest painters alive today »
(Dr. Raymond S. Stites
Author and Art Historian Curator of Education, National Gallery of Art Washington 1948-1968
« It was quite accidental that in his constant search for something novel, Szász came accrosse the porcelain as a possible and potential material on which to paint »
(Daily News, Budapest) « the trouble was that no one, anywhere in the world, was able to produce such large-scale porcelain sheets. I tried, in vain, in China, in the States, until I met workers here at Hollóháza, where they did it at the first go »
(Endre Szász)
« While busy in several other genres of fine arts and having exhibitions on practically each continent. Szász regularly revisits his lately set up Studio at Hollóháza »
(Daily News, Budapest)
Endre Szász the artist:
«Sometimes you make compromises in life. I make none in my art.»
(E. Sz.)
«Money kills human feelings. I hate it, but I need it to be free.»
(E. Sz.)
«1 am... Tovább

Fülszöveg

« I think he is one of the greatest painters alive today »
(Dr. Raymond S. Stites
Author and Art Historian Curator of Education, National Gallery of Art Washington 1948-1968
« It was quite accidental that in his constant search for something novel, Szász came accrosse the porcelain as a possible and potential material on which to paint »
(Daily News, Budapest) « the trouble was that no one, anywhere in the world, was able to produce such large-scale porcelain sheets. I tried, in vain, in China, in the States, until I met workers here at Hollóháza, where they did it at the first go »
(Endre Szász)
« While busy in several other genres of fine arts and having exhibitions on practically each continent. Szász regularly revisits his lately set up Studio at Hollóháza »
(Daily News, Budapest)
Endre Szász the artist:
«Sometimes you make compromises in life. I make none in my art.»
(E. Sz.)
«Money kills human feelings. I hate it, but I need it to be free.»
(E. Sz.)
«1 am crazy about painting.»
(E. Sz.)
«A face I paint may look like a portrait — but it is a feeling.»
(E. Sz.)
«1 was born January 7,1926 in Csíkszereda, Transylvania. I started drawing at 4 and I decided at 8 that I would be an artist». «1 believe, that a curriculum does not say anything. What really speaks is the work of the artist.» « he was schooled in the Hungarian National Academy of Art studying under teachers with classical backgrounds, so he is capable of passages of lyric beauty similar to those found among the finest Renaissance masters. His Surrealistic style, in its suggestive power, reaches far beyond that of the Spaniard, Salvador Dall. It has much more of a germanic expresslonlstic strain. And that too is part of his inheritance, for he is like Albrecht Dürer, whose father also came from the Szekely stock. Like Dürer he reveals a fantasy which allies him with Bosch and Breughel. The technique of Szász is a combination of oil-varnlsh like that discovered by the Van Eycks. In its jewel-like colors, when it moves into the field of landscape, it reminds one of the best of the Tang dynasty Chinese masters.»
(Dr. Raymond S. Stites) He perfected his skill until the age of 38, pursuing an extensive Vissza