biographie de Laszlo SZABO (1917-1984)

Birth place: Budapest, Hungary

Addresses: Buffalo, NY

Profession: Portrait painter, teacher, lecturer

Studied: Royal Acad. Art, Budapest; Académie Julian & …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; ASL.

Exhibited: All. Artists, 1940 (gold), 1944 (prize); Buffalo SA annually, 1938 (prize), 1943 (prize), 1946 (prize), 1947 (prize), 1950 (prize), 1951-54 (prizes); Gld. All. A, 1939 (prize), 1940 (prize), 1944 (prize), 1949 (prize), 1950 (prize), 1952 (prize), 1964 (prize); Albright A. Gal.; Rundall Gal., Rochester; Rationalists A. Cl., traveling exhs. in Rochester, Albany, Binghampton, Auburn, N.Y.; Batavia Soc. A.; Genesee Group; PAFA; Ogunquit A. Center; Sheldon Swope A. Gal.; Daubers Cl. & Cayuga Mus., Auburn, N.Y.; Buffalo Mus. Science; Pan A. Soc, 1955 (gold medal); FA League, Buffalo, 1958 (silver medal), 1963 (gold medal), 1964 (Grumbacher Prize); solo: Town Cl., Kowalski Gal., Twentieth Century Cl., Pub. Lib., Shea's Buffalo Theatre, Buffalo Pub. Lib.; YMCA and Williams Gal., all in Buffalo, N.Y. Awards: Gainsborough prize, 1959; Rembrandt prize,1956, 1960; Diestel prize, 1957; McDonald prize, 1957; Talens & Son, Inc. prize, 1961; Buffalo Symphony Orchestra prize, 1963.

Member: Pan Arts Soc.; Buffalo Soc. Art; Rationalists Art Cl.; Gld. All. Artists; Genesee Group; Batavia Soc. Art; Royal Soc. Art, London (fellow); ASL; Daubers Club; FA Lg.

Work: Erie County Hall, Buffalo, NY; Niagara Sanatorium, Lockport, NY; Buffalo Consistory, Riverside H.S., Liberty Bank, all of Buffalo; Swope Art Gal.; NY State Hist. Assn., Ticonderoga, NY; NY State Supreme Court, Buffalo; East Aurora Trust Co., and St. John Vianney Seminary, both East Aurora, NY; Domestic Relations Court, Buffalo; Veterans Admin. Hospital, Buffalo.

Sources: WW66; WW47.