Ferenc Csősz

Ferenc Csősz (born December 24, 1921 in Arad , Romania, † June 7, 2007 in Stuttgart ) was a Hungarian painter and sculptor.

• academic studies at the Art Academy in Budapest;
• Refugee after the 1956 popular uprising in Hungary;
• Creativity: Verona, Paris, Monte Carlo, Cannes, Zurich, Munich and Stuttgart;
• Most of the pictures and statuettes are privately and company owned.

Youth and early creative period

Even in his youth, the painter Ferenc Csösz had an eye for movement and for rhythmic, lively things. When Ferenc Csösz first exhibited for the western public after the Hungarian uprising in 1956, he was still thematically connected to his homeland. Horses, riders, cockfights, dance figurations and people in motion were his main themes.

Time after the Hungarian uprising

Probably driven by homesickness, he took refuge in the world of music. The rigor of the structure of the music fascinated him; so it can also be found in his pictures. During this creative period he drew and painted many celebrities such as Stravinsky, Karajan, Fricsay and others. Csösz's understanding of music also explains his room design and his preference for sudden changes to another dimension. It is remarkable how he transformed rhythmic discipline and sometimes distant abstraction into palatable intelligibility.

Turning to ballet

While Csösz's ethereal and yet powerful design aroused astonishment in the past, his work is now more received with fascination. So he was one of the artists who consistently designed his ideas of a higher aesthetic of ballet with great sensitivity. As a result, Csösz found his artistic ideas confirmed in the ballet stronghold of Stuttgart and made this city his adopted home. This period - especially under Cranko - had a lasting impact on his oeuvre. Csösz was considered a master at capturing the world of ballet with only brief, masterful hints. His unmatched style is only possible and explainable through a thorough knowledge of the subject.

Painting and sculpture

Csösz became more aware of the earlier instinctive divisions of space through the study of Western magnitudes; In this way, he not only put his dance figurations but also the spatial representations of city silhouettes into a choreographic order. For Ferenc Csösz it was of the utmost importance that the material and content of his work to be conveyed was made accessible to the viewer in an obvious way - be it as a sculpture, drawing or in the form of a picture. Ferenc Csösz avoided any kind of accidental effect in his painting and sculptural means. Particularly noteworthy here is that he strictly ruled out the colors running into one another, unless he expressly intended it. In his pictures there are only elements that he determined from the beginning. He himself compared this to the work of a conductor. “When rehearsing a work, the conductor hears the notes in advance and rehearses until his idea of ​​the interpretation comes to the sound,” said Ferenc Csösz at one of his few exhibitions.

Complete works

The relationship between his plastic and painted figurations are only logical connections between two- and three-dimensional representations. Despite this severity, Csösz hid an expressive temperament. Although his pictures are divided into exact order, movement and tension are expressed kinematically. Topics from Greek mythology or the Bible were also implemented using these strict principles.

Portraits

Over the years, in addition to the works shown above, Csösz painted a large number of portraits, including those of Christine Herzog, the late wife of the former Federal President and founder of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Exhibitions and publications

• Exhibition Ballet : Pictures and Sculptures from June 10th to 20th, 1980 in the house of the German Parliamentary Society in Bonn;
• Stuttgart pictures and other works in the rooms of the Stuttgarter Wochenblatt;
• Publications by the Stuttgarter Wochenblatt such as calendars, pictures, Christmas cards and the cover picture of the Christmas edition for many years;
• Further exhibitions in Verona at the Hotel Due Torri