Klára Herczeg

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Klára Herczeg , also Claire Weiss (-Herczeg) (born October 13, 1906 in Budapest ; † August 6, 1997 ), was a Hungarian sculptor. She is the founder of the Klára Herczeg Prize, which is awarded annually by the Young Artists Foundation .

Klára Herczeg spent her childhood in Vienna, where she began an apprenticeship as a sculptor in the Arsenal foundry. From 1924 to 1928 she attended the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, where she was taught by Zsigmond Kisfaludy Strobl .

After completing her studies, she lived in Berlin for a year from 1929 to 1930 and made porcelain figurines, among others for the Rosenthal company . She then moved to Paris, where she was tutored by Charles Despiau until 1933, while continuing to design porcelain figurines for various companies.

After 1933 and with interruptions until her death she lived in Budapest, where she married in 1937. The marriage remained childless.

Life's work

Statue of the Hungarian poet Attila József in Makó, a work by Klára Herczeg
Klára Herczeg's "Junior Statue" (Hungarian: Öcsi szobor) in Makó

Her works have been exhibited since 1925. In 1937 she took part in the Paris World Exhibition and in 1939 in the New York World Exhibition . About 30 of her sculptures are in Budapest and other Hungarian museums. Her works are also exhibited abroad, for example in the Albrecht Dürer House in Nuremberg.

The porcelain and ceramic figures created between 1930 and 1940 were never shown or mentioned in exhibitions. Also in her last exhibition, which took place in 1996 on the occasion of the 90th anniversary in the Petöfi Iradolmi Museum in Budapest, not one of these outstanding figures could be seen. However, her porcelain and ceramic figures appear again and again at art auctions and in the antiques trade. There is evidence that she designed more than the almost 200 figures from well-known porcelain and ceramic factories mentioned here:

  • 1930–1940: 80 for Goldscheider - Austria
  • 1931–1939: 14 for Hutschenreuther - Germany
  • 1932–1939: 40 for Bing & Grøndahl - Denmark
  • 1932–1957: 27 for Rosenthal in Porzellan - Germany
  • 1933: 12 for Herend - Hungary
  • 1936: 1 for Hollohaza - Hungary
  • 1939: 3 for Devon Crown - England
  • ? : 7 for Haas & Czjek - Czech Republic
  • 1937–1938: 16 for Metzler & Ortloff - Germany
  • ? : 2 for Aelteste Volkstedt - Germany
  • ? : 3 for Wallendorf - Germany
  • ? : 2 for Scheibe-Alsbach - Germany

Between 1940 and 1997 she worked with numerous materials, such as bronze and aluminum castings, stone and clay. The themes of her monumental sculptures, small sculptures, portraits and plaques were sociology, religion, mythology and legends.

Klára Herczeg Prize

In her will, Klára Herczeg named the Young Artists Foundation in Budapest as heir. The purpose of the foundation is to support artists at the beginning of their careers and artists at an advanced age. The Board of Directors of the Foundation decided to name the award after the testator.

Awards

literature

  • Heinz Hoever: Porcelain by Claire Weiss . In: Trödler & Sammeln (today Collectors Journal ) . No. 199 . Gemi Verlags GmbH, June 1996, p. 36-41 .
  • Klára Herczeg: Herczeg Klára szobrász, Munkácsy-díjas . Sculptress, Munkácsy prizewinner. Ed .: Ida Kovács. Láng Kiadó Holding Rt., 1996, ISBN 963-7840-99-0 . (Hungarian / English)
  • Klára Herczeg: Munkácsy-díjas szobrászművész plakettjei és kisplasztikái . Ed .: Antal Tóth, Jenő Sándor Vass. 1993, ISBN 963-450-147-8 (catalog of an exhibition in Sopron). (Hungarian)
  • Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider - company history and catalog raisonné historicism, art nouveau, art deco, 1950s . Goldscheider: History of the Company and Catalog of Works. Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 . (German English)
  • Klára Herczeg: Herczeg Klára szobrászművész kiállítása . Ed .: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Hungarian National Museum . 1981, ISBN 963-7431-59-4 . (Hungarian)

Web links

Commons : Klára Herczeg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walk in Makó  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sulinet.hu  
  2. ↑ History of the Klára Herczeg Prize (English)
personal data
SURNAME Herczeg, Klára
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herczeg, Claire; Weiss-Herczeg, Claire
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1997