CURRICULUM VITAE

I was born in 1953 in Kiskunfélegyháza.
My family moved first to Szatymaz, than to Szeged in 1963.
I passed my final exams from high school Radnóti Miklós in Szeged in 1971, with a specialization of physics and mathematics.
Following one year of military service, I continued my studies at the University of Szeged, Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, where I graduated as a geography and art teacher in 1976.
In 1977, I was accepted at the department of Reproductive Graphics at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, where I garduated in 1981. My masters were Szilárd Iván, Károly Raszler, and Tibor Rozanits.
In 1980 I spent my summer internship at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Dresden, Germany), under the tutorship of prof. Koban.
I followed two years of post-graduate education also at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Between 1983 and 1986 I was grantee of the Derkovits Scholarship (the main national program of the time that supported young artists).
In 1983, at the end of my studies, I was invited to become assistant teacher of Gábor Nagy at the Academy of Fine Arts. From that moment on, I had been teaching at the Acaddemy for 36 years, having a contact with generations of graphic artists in Hungary. In 2007 I became Doctor of Liberal Arts and worked as an adjunct professor since then. I retired in 2018.

I am married, my wife is architect Márta Németh since 1978. We have two children and five grandchildren. Since 1993 we have a temporary art gallery in Sopron, the hometown of my wife, where we exhibit the works of friends, colleagues and former students of mine once or twice a year.
I work with every classical techniques of the graphical art. I make copper engravings, lithographies, aquatints, linocuts, serigraphies, I draw with pastel, or otherwise. I paint with watercolor, acrylic paint, and oil colour.