János Percz "Face", 1960’s
Description
Silvered pendant, signed: "JANOS PERCZ"
Dimensions: 5x4,5 cm
János Percz (Budapest 1920 - 2000 Budapest) Hungarian painter, jewelry designer, graphic artist. He studied paintings and graphic at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studios of Lajos Varga Nándor, Jenő Bor, Ferenc Sidló and Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl. After World War II back to Budapest and graduated. After his studies he worked as a graphic designer and made woodcuts. He traveled to NRD, Austria and Italy. He was a member of the Hungarian Society of Graphic Artists. In the years 1948-1960 he worked as an art teacher and was interested in metalworking. In the years 1957-1960 participated in seven exhibitions of handicrafts where won 16 prizes. After this success he got a scholarship and designed modernist jewelry. Now he is one of the best known innovators of Hungarian Goldsmithing and metalwork. During his career as a teacher and an artist he redefined the boundaries of metalworking as art. He designed jewelry, vases, bowls, candlesticks, and masks in bronze and brass. He also created sculptures. His works were exhibited for example in Brussels, Moscow, Prague, Stockholm, Oslo.