Vase by endre szasz for hollohaza hungary, golden porcelain, 1970s

Large porcelain baluster vase and decoration by the hungarian painter endre szasz executed by the hollohaza hungary porcelain factory. Surrealist décor very qualitative in the spirit of piero fornasetti or wiinblad for the rosenthal porcelain factory, quality equal to the sèvre porcelain factory in paris or royal copenhagen in denmark. In perfect condition. Biography: endre lászló szász ("vallon") (1926 – 2003) was a hungarian painter, illustrator, graphic designer, engraver, muralist, designer and decorator of ceramics (porcelain painter). He drew from childhood and used oil, acrylic, tempera, pencil, ink, charcoal, monotype, dry point, lithography, etching and aquatint, and painted on several materials, such as posters and porcelain. He has also made several book illustrations. Endre studied at the budapest university of fine arts. Between the late 1940s and late 1960s, szász worked as an illustrator and illustrated a few hundred books. In 1959 he won an illustrator's prize at the leipzig fair. In 1964, he presented in great britain his work on the rubaiyat of omar khayyam. He has had several exhibitions around the world, including the museum of modern art (mexico city), the auschwitz museum (poland), the hungarian national gallery (budapest), and has also exhibited in madrid, copenhagen, brussels, berlin, rome, oslo, johannesburg, new orleans, los angeles, san francisco, budapest, amman (jordan) and tokyo. An original by szász also hangs in la sebastiana, one of the homes of the famous chilean poet and diplomat pablo neruda. He was one of the greatest painters in the history of art, szász lived in toronto, canada, from 1970 to 1974, then in los angeles, california, until 1982, when he returned to hungary. Like salvatore, szász had a pet ocelot.

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