1929

Born in Rákospalota (H)

1951

Degree in Architecture from the Budapest Technical University

1951-56

Employed as an architect at various design offices in Budapest

1956

Emigrates to Vienna, Austria

Lecturing assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, Technische Universität, Vienna

1960

Ink and gouache pictures, structures

1964

First solo exhibition

1965

Designs and executes playground equipments, Wiener Baukasten collection of variable playground elements

1967

Becomes an Austrian citizen; visits Hungary on several occasions

1968

Marries Dóra Maurer, and since that time resides on both places: Vienna and Budapest

1969

Printed graphics with the application of found objects; Conceptual art

1970

Commencement of SUMUS activities; participation in the Hungarian art scene

1971

Participation in international biennials of graphic art. Amphigrams: two-sided folded graphics and picture objects

1972

Series of folded collages; the theoretical formulation of his Tectonic concept

Occasional participation in the work of the Hungarian Atelier, Paris

1975

Co-operation with Exakte Tendenzen Wien-Buchberg arts association, with Francois Morellet

1977

Invitation from the Grupa Junij (Ljubljana, Yugoslavia) artists’ group to participate in the group’s international exhibitions;

participation at the arts symposia of the Dutch Arbeitskreis, international constructive-serial arts group

1985

Concludes his 15-year period of systematic-analytic works; his tectonic picture construction becomes looser,

but he retains his working method: folding, collage and the medium of his paintings, the primed canvas; floating pictures.

Begin of the landforming in Badacsonyörs with Dóra Maurer

1987

Quasi-anthropomorphic folded pictures (Dürer Gesellschaft exhibition, Nuremberg, Germany 1996)

Becomes member of the Internationales Künstlergremium

1997

Folded colour canvases

2001

First variable relief (Nofretete)

2004

(De)constructiones

2006

founding member of the Open Structures Art Society (OSAS)

2008

member of the Széchenyi Academyof Literature and Art

2009

Prize of the Hung. State

 

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 

1964

Galerie Nansenhaus, Wien

1975

Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz

Museum Folkwang, Essen

1976

István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár

Bercsényi Klub, Budapest

1977

Galeria Gamma, Utrecht

Leinencollagen, Sohle 1. Bergkamen

1978

Faltcollagen, Atelier Schweinebraden, Berlin-Ost

1980

Tektonika, Pécsi Galéria, Pécs

1983

Galerie Circulus, Bonn

Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht

1986

Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien

Ernst Múzeum, Budapest

1993

Szombathelyi Képtár, Szombathely

1996

Streifenbilder, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Nürnberg

1999

Éri Galéria, Budapest

2000

Dorottya utcai Galéria, Budapest

2001

Parallel Oeuvres, Városi Művészeti Múzeum, Győr (Maurer Dórával)

2003

Lares et Penates saturnaliam celebrantes, Fészek Galéria, Budapest

2005

(DE)CONSTRUCTIONES 1., K.A.S. Galéria, Budapest

2006

(DE)CONSTRUCTIONES 4., Budapest Galéria, Budapest

2009

Új hajtások, K.A.S. Galéria, Budapest

L’arte d’invenzione, Paksi Képtár, Paks

 

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