Education
Upon his return to Hungary, he studied interior design at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, where his interests temporarily shifted from painting to architecture.
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Tamas Lossonczy
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He is considered by many critics to be one of the leading figures of modern art in Hungary of the 20th century. After graduation from secondary school, Lossonczy began law studies, but soon afterward took an entrance examination to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and was accepted. During the 1920s, he traveled frequently to Paris, where he befriended several prominent artists of the period.
The couple exhibited many of their artworks in their home, but these pieces were destroyed when the house was bombed toward the end of World World War World War II From 1957-1968, he taught drawing at an industrial school in Budapest.
In 1970, he had a small solo show at the Adolf Fényes Gallery, and in 1979 an exhibition of his work was held at Kunsthalle Budapest. Among his best known works is his large-scale mosaic at the EUR-Magliana metro station in Rome, Italy, which was inaugurated in 1998.
Another work, Great Storm Cleanses, is in remembrance of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Achievements
Politics
In 1934, Lossonczy became a member of the Group of Socialist Artists.
Membership
Lossonczy was a member of the European School, the Avant-garde Artists of the Danube Valley, and the Hungarian Group of Concrete Artist Lossonczy is a founding member of the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts, established by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1992.
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Hungary