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1928 Westlake, Ohio - 2017 Washington. Known for: Abstract design enameling.
Born in Westlake, Ohio in 1928, Harold Balazs took Saturday morning art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art as a child. Although in his early teens at the time, Balazs remembers being particularly... Read full biography
Born in Westlake, Ohio in 1928, Harold Balazs took Saturday morning art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art as a child. Although in his early teens at the time, Balazs remembers being particularly impressed with two enamel panels by Edward Winter "in the stairway to art classes in the Cleveland... Read full biography
Born in Westlake, Ohio in 1928, Harold Balazs took Saturday morning art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art as a child. Although in his early teens at the time, Balazs remembers being particularly impressed with two enamel panels by Edward Winter "in the stairway to art classes in the Cleveland art museum where I studied from 1938 to 1941." Balazs realized at this early age: "I wanted to do to that some day - enamel!". He went on to study painting and drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago... Read full biography
Born in Westlake, Ohio in 1928, Harold Balazs took Saturday morning art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art as a child. Although in his early teens at the time, Balazs remembers being particularly impressed with two enamel panels by Edward Winter "in the stairway to art classes in the Cleveland art museum where I studied from 1938 to 1941." Balazs realized at this early age: "I wanted to do to that some day - enamel!". He went on to study painting and drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago and to receive a B.F.A. degree from Washington State University in 1951. At WSU, the Czech-born artist George Laisner introduced him to the spare, geometric work of Bauhaus masters Gyorgy Kepes and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Laisner also rekindled Balazs's... Read full biography
Born in Westlake, Ohio in 1928, Harold Balazs took Saturday morning art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art as a child. Although in his early teens at the time, Balazs remembers being particularly impressed with two enamel panels by Edward Winter "in the stairway to art classes in the Cleveland art museum where I studied from 1938 to 1941." Balazs realized at this early age: "I wanted to do to that some day - enamel!". He went on to study painting and drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago and to receive a B.F.A. degree from Washington State University in 1951. At WSU, the Czech-born artist George Laisner introduced him to the spare, geometric work of Bauhaus masters Gyorgy Kepes and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Laisner also rekindled Balazs's early passion "by exposing us to a minimum of enameling.". After graduating, Balazs supported himself and his famil... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Decorative Art, Decoration Design, Ornamental Arts
- •Furniture and/or Cabinet Design and Making
- •Jewelry Making, Jewelry Design
Art Media
- •Enamel Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Art Collection
- •Enamel Arts Foundation
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Czech Nationality