Miklós Borsos | |
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| Born | (1906-08-13)13 August 1906 |
| Died | 27 January 1990(1990-01-27) (aged 83) |
| Occupation | sculptor |
Miklós Borsos (13 August 1906 – 27 January 1990) was aHungariansculptor andmedallist. His style integrated elements of archaic art andclassicism withmodern elements.[1]
Born inNagyszeben,Transylvania,Kingdom of Hungary (present-daySibiu,Romania), he and his family fled toGyőr in 1916, after the Romanian invasion; they settled there in 1922. Borsos and his wife lived in the same Győr house until the end ofWorld War II.[1]
He became interested in art and particularly sculpture in the late 1920s. He initially began as a painter, he dedicated his interest to sculpture during the 1930s, and became accomplished in the latter art by 1940. In 1928 and 1929 he spent travelled from Venice to Marseille. In 1929 he briefly trained at theHungarian University of Fine Arts underOszkár Glatz, which was his only formal training.[2]
Up to the end of the 1940s, Borsos' art was tightly connected to the modern Hungarian plastic art represented byFülöp Ö. Beck,Béni Ferenczy, andFerenc Medgyessy. From about 1950 onwards, he developed moreintellectual,abstract, and experimental approaches. Borsos's form of expression and the subjects of his art were connected with the intensity of his experiences and views.
Borsos had his first public showing in 1941 in Budapest at the Tamás Galéria. He later had shows around Europe, includingLinz, Austria (1964),Venice (1966), andRome (1967),Zürich,Graz andLocarno in 1967.[1]
Borsos made use of all sculptural genres, and enriched them with several new solutions. He developedembossing ofcopper plates (which was a rare technique at that point in history), and produced a number of sculptures for public places andsepulchral monuments focusing on a modern environmental culture which often bore a deep personal message and reflected great intimacy (combining symbolic motifs of natural life, as well as cultural values). Human and animal figures were common subject, and his forté was not in fine detail but in creating overall masterpieces.[2]
Borsos also became focused onportrait art during the late 1950s and 1960s, where his work integrated aspects of nature, atmosphere, as well as cultural and spiritual traditions into a new genre of sculptural art. Works of this period include thePortrait of József Egry (1952),Sybilla Pannonica (1963),Lighea (1968),The Young Parca (1964), andCanticus Canticorum (1977).[1]
In 1979, Borsos opened theMiklós Borsos Art Gallery in Győr, formerly a courthouse of theGyőr Bishopric. It is situated in the oldest neighbourhood of the city, near the Saint Michael Chapel, and is now the Miklós Borsos City Art Museum.[3]
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Miklós was awarded the title Artist of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic in 1967. His other honors include:[1]
