Pierre Székely
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Péter Pierre Székely (born June 11, 1923 in Budapest , † April 3, 2001 in Paris ) was a Hungarian-French sculptor.
life and work
Székely grew up in Budapest and learned drawing and carving small wooden models at the Budapest Art School and, from 1941, sculpture with Hanna Dallos . In 1944 he was imprisoned in a labor camp , from where he fled to Budapest towards the end of World War II . In Budapest he met the artist Vera Harsány, with whom he moved to France. Székely settled in Bures-sur-Yvette and exhibited his works in Paris for the first time in 1955. From 1955 to 1966 he lived in Marcoussis .
At the end of the 1960s, Székely worked in the granite quarries in Brittany, where he worked on sculptures using flame-blasting (over 3000 ° C). Through the mediation of André Malraux , Székely received French citizenship in 1972. From 1980 he was regularly in Perros-Guirec , where he worked as a stone sculptor on granite sculptures in Brittany .
Székely was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Royal Hague Academy of Arts in the Netherlands and was nominated for the Ordre national du Mérite . He taught philosophy of art at the Universities of Kanazawa ( Japan ), Hong Kong ( China ), New York and Detroit ( USA ), and Thessaloniki and Athens ( Greece ). He was honored by the government of Hungary and the Hungarian Baranya . There is a Székely Museum in Pécs, Hungary , another is in Japan and one is being planned in France. Pécs is the European Capital of Culture 2010 and the Székely Museum has been restored on the occasion . Many of Székely's works can be found in museums and exhibitions, mainly in France and Japan. Various sculptures by him are displayed in the Sculpture Park in Pécs near the Székely Museum.
Works (selection)
Only a selection of his works is presented here:
- 1962 Energie solaire en Joie , symposium of European sculptors in Sankt Margarethen in Burgenland
- 1963 Contact , Wall Symposium in Berlin-Tiergarten
- 1964 L'Ange de pierre , Parc du Mont-Royal in Montreal ( International Sculpture Symposium )
- 1967/68 sculpture , Grenoble ( Symposium de sculpture Grenoble on the occasion of the 1968 Winter Olympics )
- 1968 La sol bipedo , Ruta de la Amistad in Mexico City on the occasion of the 1968 Summer Olympics
- 1972 Développement Kibontakozás , Szoborpark Nagyharsány on the occasion of the Sculptor Symposium Villány in 1971 (International Stone Sculptor Symposium 1971)
- 1975 La Dame du Lac de Szekely , Parc d'Évry Courcouronnes in Évry
- 1981/83 Puberté , Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon
- 1982 Le Sculpteur , Győr Art Museum
- 1983 Paix , Nagyváradplein in Budapest
- 1988 L'Oisseau impossible ( Stone Dragon ), Sapporo (International Granite Festival Aji)
- 1988 Le Chef de Saint Dominique s'identifie au soleil , Dominican Republic
- 1995 Lumen , The National Grid Company , Ashford
- 1996 Affinité , Institut Français de Budapest in Budapest
Web links
- Artistic CV of Pierre Székely (English)
- Biography of the work Pierre Székely (French)
- Pierre Székely on artnet.de
- Exhibition of some of his works
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pierre Székely's curriculum vitae . Retrieved August 21, 2010
- ^ Important professional life data of Pierre Székely . Retrieved August 21, 2010
- ^ Works by Pierre Székely . Retrieved August 21, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Székely, Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Székely, Péter Pierre (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 2001 |
| Place of death | Paris |