Erik Scholz

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Erik Scholz (born February 27, 1926 in Budapest , † May 6, 1995 in Zsennye ) was a Hungarian artist .

Life

Scholz studied from 1944 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest . First he was a student with Istvan Szönyi and in 1948 moved to the mosaic department of Géza Fónyi . In 1949 he graduated and was a research assistant at the academy until 1950. In 1957 and 1958 he was invited by the Salon Populiste to Paris for six months each . In 1987 he moved to the western Hungarian village of Zsennye . This is where his late work was created.

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Erik Scholz's work cannot be assigned to any art movement. It manifests itself in three work phases. His early work is based on realism. From the mid-1960s onwards, the images became more abstract; Scholz referred to this second phase of his work as “associative naturalism”. With the move to Zsennye in 1987, Scholz found his authentic pictorial language in the third phase of his work. He applied the string-like rhizomorphs of the mushroom Hallimasch and used wood ash fixed with synthetic resin in his works. A formal image structure is always taken into account despite the conceptual and associative content. For Scholz, the rhizomorphs that grew and passed and found a new life in his art, embody the central theme of his artistic concern: the metamorphoses of nature, becoming and passing, life and death. "I call up the fragments of life from past beings ... from ashes and the natural bioforms of the rhizomorphs."

Awards (selection)

  • 1950: Munkácsy Award
  • 1952: 1st prize of the Society for Hungarian-Soviet Friendship
  • 1961: Istvan Czók Medal
  • 1971: 1st prize at the Hungarian World Hunting Show
  • 1988: Sombathely Municipal Art Competition

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

Web links

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  1. ↑ Scholz Erik Kepek 1965–1988. 1988, Kratzl (ed). Iscola Galeria Csepel, Hungarian / English, ISBN 963-03-2974-3 .
  2. ↑ a b E. Scholz, A. Nikolett Dárday, Ibolya Laczkó (eds.): Scholz. Self-published, 1996, ISBN 963-04-6213-3 .
  3. ↑ Scholz Erik (Hungarian)
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1995
Place of death Zsennye