Orosz Gellert BIOGRAPHY
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Painter. Graduated from the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts in 1949. His masters: István Szonyi, Jeno Barcsay. He worked as Barcsay's assistant until 1952. In 1978 he was a silver medalist at the Italia 2000 exhibition, and in 1998 he was awarded the Small Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic. He organized his first exhibition of abstract-non-figurative works in 1948 in Budapest. In the 1950s he joined the circle of progressive artists grouped around Kassák. At the same time, as a member of the Négyesfogat (Nuridsány, Jánossy, Sugár), he appeared at official exhibitions with post-impressionist paintings. He regularly participated in exhibitions, but the most important part of his works remained unknown to the domestic public until t...
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