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Zoltán Joó is a Hungarian painter of contemporary figurative fine art

Career

He has worked in the religious art as an altar-painter, too. He likes to carve reliefs and sculptures. His interest artwork is the painted coffered ceiling that is reminds mood of the painted ceilings from the Middle Ages.

He was the illustrator of two Children’s-books

To this contacts his realization of the animation-book Nowadays he takes up the mural and decorative wall paintings.

Zoltán Joó was born in 1956 and has lived in Budapest and in a nearly small town, Veresegyház, Hungary. He comes from a non-artistic family, his father was legal adviser and his mother was international business broker.

As a consequence of it, Zoltán educated to civil engineer

His engineering career was began as work manager and ended as technical and economic deputy general manager. Zoltán learned the painting and the art in the old, traditional method: in atelier of his Master. He has tried his skill in various artworks: table pictures, oil paintings, sculptures, altar, painted coffered ceiling, reliefs, large decorative wall painting, illustrations of books with traditional paints and graphics, furthermore animated book with computer technique.

Achievements

  • He turned round the painting due to his friend, Tamás Péli who had had a degree of Master at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.