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Borbereky, Zoltán Kovács Death: Johannesburg, March 26, 1992 Author: József Ladányi

 

After the Podolini-Volkmann Artur school, he studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts from 1928 until 1933. His teachers were János Vaszary and István Csók (whose assistant at the college). In his Roman fellowship, he studied fresco painting at the Accademia delle Belle Artin Ferruccio Ferrazzi. 1931: recognition of the Szinyei Society; 1933: The Painting Prize of the Holy See is the Ernst Museum CXXXVI. group exhibition; Between 1933-1934: Italian public scholarship; Between 1934 and 1935, the fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome; 1935: József Ferenc jubilee sculpture award; 1937: Vindobona medal at the Hungarian exhibition in Vienna; Sculpture Grand Prix, World Expo, Paris; 1938: Luther Memorial Prize; Prize for Madách Memorial Prize; 1959: Royal Society of British Sculptors II. fee; 1962: Arts and Religion 1st Prize; 1974: National Stainless Steel Sculpture Competition I prize. The Association of New Artists and Vice President of the Rippl-Rónai Society. From 1933 he worked regularly at the colony of Szolnok. From 1940 he was the core of the artists' colony. In 1948 he left the country, in Italy, from Cape Town (Cape Town) in 1949 and later in Johannesburg. In 1992 he was buried in Szolnok.From 1928 he was an exhibitor. His first exhibitions featured paintings. His works were characterized by monumentality and dynamism. He did not study sculpture. At the beginning of the 30s he began to model the Szolnok colony. Even in his realistic sculptures, he tried to express pure forms, his works were blocked, his compositions closed. At first he worked with stone, and at the end of the decade he made bronze and woodcuts and reliefs. He also made building plastics that he wanted to achieve the unity of architecture and applied art. His statues depicted Hungarian folk types. At the end of the 40's, his works were broken and expressive. In South Africa he became acquainted with the natives' art, and his sculpture was influenced by black plastic. By the end of the 1960s he was figurative, but he made plastics towards abstraction. He used several materials, metal, wood and terracotta for his statues. Its forms have been gradually simplified. His works are rhythmic, dynamic plastics. His compositions were also characterized by a solid representation and a closed composition. Since the mid-60s, he used the semi-precious stones in South Africa, from which non-figurative sculptures were carved.

 

Literature

ENTZ G .: ~, Hungarian Cultural Review, 1941/4. VITÉZ NAGY Z .: ~, Fine Art, 1942/4. EGRI M .: Szolnok's Colony of Artists, Budapest, 1977 Hungarian Art 1919-1945, Budapest, 1985 L. L. MENYHÉRT: L., Budapest, 1986 (with literature) L. MENYHÉRT L .: (ed.), Vigadó Gallery, Budapest, 1987, literature) , P. J .: SZŰCS the Roman School, Budapest, 1987 L. MENYHÉRT L .: ~ art 1948, Szolnok Museum Yearbook VII. Szolnok, 1990 DANCSHÁZY HIGH M .: Búcsú ~ from, Art and Friends, 1992/4. L. ABOUT LIFE: From the Bullshit to the South Cross. ~1907-1992, New Art, 1993/1.

 

Individual exhibitions

Kovács Szalon [Gábor Boda] 1935 • Tamás Gallery, Budapest 1937 • Ernst Museum, Budapest [with János Vaszary] 1948 • Rome [With Elizabeth Borberekiné Sebők] 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1961, 1962 • Whippman's Gallery, Johannesburg 1954 • Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris 1964 • G. Montenapoleone, Milan 1965 • Durban Art G. [Erzsébet Borberekiné Sebők] • Galerie Bürdeke, Zurich 1968 • Selected Works 1959-1968, Pretoria 1969 • Georgian House [Borberekiné Sebők Erzsébet, Borbereki Barbara ] 1971 • Gallery 101, Johannesburg 1973 • Triad Gallery, Johannesburg 1974-1975 • Gallery 21, London 1975 • Galerie Tchou, Paris1977 • Galerie Suzanne Bollang, Zürich 1987 • Vigadó Gallery, Budapest • Szolnok Gallery, Szolnok

 

Selected group exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions1928 • Spring Salon, National Salon, Budapest from 1931 • Exhibition of New Artists Exhibition, National Salon, Budapest • Spring Festival of the Szinye Society, National Salon, Budapest 1932 • XVIII. Venice Biennale, Venice • Hungarian Exposition, New York 1933 • CXXXVI. Group exhibition , Ernst Museum, Budapest (with larger material) from 1933 • National Fine Arts Exhibition, Műcsarnok, Budapest from 1934 • New Society Exhibition of Artists, National Salon, Budapest 1936 •Representative exhibition of the Szolnok Artists' Colony, National Salon, Budapest • XX. Biennale of Venice , Venice • Exhibition of Hungarian Hungarian Artists, National Salon, Budapest (with larger material) • Hungarian Art Exhibition, Pittsburg • New York 1937 • Hungarian Exhibition, Künstlerhaus, Vienna 1938 • XXI. Biennale of Venice , Venice • Modern Hungarian Small Plaster, Tamás Gallery, Budapest • Hungarian Art Exhibition, Helsinki 1939 • Group Exhibitions , Ernst Museum, Budapest (with larger material) 1940 • Hungarian Small Plasztika, Tamás Gallery, Budapest1941 • Hungarian Ecclesiastical Exhibition, National Salon, Budapest • Artistic (with larger material) 1942 • "1942" , National Salon, Budapest • Liberty and Folk, Ironworks Headquarters, Budapest 1943 • Hungarian Artists' Pictures, National Salon, Budapest 1944 50 years of Hungarian art, Budapest Art Gallery, Budapest • Hungarian exhibition,Kunsthaus, Zurich • Group exhibition, Count Almássy-Teleki Éva Art Institute (with bigger material) 1945 • Innovators of our fine art from Nagybánya to the present day, Budapest Gallery, Budapest from 1946 • Rippl-Rónai The exhibition,Ernst Museum, Budapest • National Salon, Budapest 1947 • Exhibition of fifty artists, National Salon, Budapest 1948 • Exhibition of 90 artists, National Salon, Budapest • Hungarian Exhibition, London • Stockholm 1957 • Hungarian Revolutionary Art , Műcsarnok, Budapest 1962 • Szabadság és People, Csók Gallery, Budapest 1966 • Hungarian Sculpture 1920-1945. Hungarian art of the twentieth century, Csók Képtár, Székesfehérvár • Exhibition of the artists' colony of Szolnok, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest 1970 • 20th century Hungarian artists abroad, Műcsarnok, Budapest1977, 1978 • Jubilee Exhibition of the Colony of Szolnok, Damjanich Museum, Szolnok • Szolnok Gallery, Szolnok • Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest 1980 • Socialist sculpture 1919-1945, Savaria Museum, Szombathely 1982 • Honor to the native land. Artists living abroad with Hungarian descent II. exhibition,Műcsarnok, Budapest 1983, 1984 • Roman School I, II, Christian Museum, Esztergom.

 

Works in public collections

Works in public collectionsJános Damjanich Museum, Szolnok South African National Gallery, Cape Town Déri Museum, Debrecen Szent István Király Museum, Székesfehérvár Janus Pannonius Museum Modern Gallery, Pécs Luther Museum, Wittenberg (D) Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Modern Art Museum, Bogotá National Museum , Helsinki Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest City Museum, Durban (South Africa)

 

Ref:  https://artportal.hu/lexikon-muvesz/borbereki-kovacs-zoltan-399/