The Klára Herczeg Prize is awarded for the twenty-seventh time. This year’s senior winner is Orshi Drozdik, while Szilvia Bolla and Áron Lődi share the junior prize.
About the founder of the Prize
Klára Herczeg, Munkácsy Prize-winning sculptor, was born in Budapest on 13 October 1906. As a child she lived in Vienna. She began her art studies there and continued them at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts between 1924-28, where her teacher was Zsigmond Kisfaludy Stróbl. In 1929-30 he lived in Berlin, where he made small sculptures for the Rosenthal porcelain factory, among others, to support himself. Since 1925 he has exhibited his work at national and international exhibitions. He took part in the 1937 Paris World’s Fair and the 1938 New York World’s Fair. Some thirty of his public sculptures can be seen in Budapest and throughout the country. In addition to domestic museums, his works can also be found abroad (e.g. in the Dürer-Haus in Nuremberg).
History of the award
About the Junior Artist Award:
In his will, the sculptor, who died on 6 August 1997, made the Young Artists Foundation a beneficiary of his estate with the intention of supporting emerging artists. The Foundation’s Board of Trustees has decided to establish a prize, named after the legator, which will be awarded each year to an artist selected by the Board of Trustees, composed of the FKSE’s management. The junior awardee is usually an outstandingly active member of the Studio, having participated in a memorable solo or group exhibition in the past year or two.
About the Senior Artist Award:
Klára Herczeg has always considered it important to bring older and younger generations closer together. Therefore, the trustee of the estate (Dr. Ádámné Dr. Ildikó Szűts Székely) decided to entrust the Studio of Young Artists (as an organisation representing emerging artists) with the honour of administering the senior degree of the Klára Herczeg Prize. For the awarding of the Senior Degree, the Association invites each year a renowned expert, independent of the Association’s management, to recommend 3 senior artists whom it considers deserving of the award. From the potential recipients nominated by the professional recommending the Senior Grade, a jury of three members, appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Studio Foundation, will select the winner. The jury members this year were Marianne Csáky, Szabolcs KissPál and Zsolt Petrányi.