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a kezdőlapraANDREW OSZE
1909 -1995
Feelings and forms.
Devotion and sympathy, tenderness and sorrow, beauty and verity, faith and harmony. Andrew Osze's artistic raison d'etre was to rechannel art into universal thought and weld it into the universal bond of humankind. He thought the artist must return to universal themes such as the expression of love, childish simplicity and innocence. Other qualities of art he deemed essential include harmony among fellow human beings, compassion for every suffering person and justice for every persecuted victim. His works were influenced by the classical art of Greece, the primitive offerings of the Middle Ages and the milieu of the New World.
Andrew Osze was born in 1909 in Nagykanizsa, in south- western Hungary. He completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He participated in all of the significant exhibitions of art in Hungary from 1937 to 1946.
In 1946, he was awarded a state scholarship for graduate studies in Rome. >From 1947 to 1949 he studied and worked for the most part at the Hungarian Academy in Rome, Italy. There, he took part in the following exhibitions: Three exhibitions of the Hungarian Institute of Rome, two of which took place in Rome, and one in Catania where he w s invited by the Italian Government. Also he exhibited at il Nostra di Artisi Stranieri and Galleria San Bernardo.
In 1948, he entered a sculpture competition, for Brazil's national monument. His work is now exhibited in the Brazilian State Museum. In 1949, he went to Brazil, and lived in Sao Paulo until 1958. He taught there at his private school, and at Nucleo de A. Cultural, an art school. His Brazilian experience greatly intensified his artistic outlook. During this period, he went on a study tour in Peru and in Bolivia. During his peregrinations in these countries he became acquainted not only with the folk art of the descendants of the ancient Incas but also with the people themselves who have, notwithstanding their apparent simplicity and passivity, remained the creative carriers of there ancient heritage. He participated in numerous group exhibitions in Sao Paulo, La Paz and Rio de Janeiro. His collected works are exhibited in the Galleria Portinari, Sao Paulo; Musseo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; and Atigonovo, Sao Paulo.
In 1958 Osze came to New York, having been invited as an art teacher.
In 1962 with the involvement of the Secretary of States and with the assistance of the Kossuth Foundation New York and as a member of the UNESCO teachers' corps he became a Professor of Art at the Escuella de Bellas Artes in Cuzco Peru. During the Academic year of 1963-64he was a Professor and Director of the Academia del Museo Arte and he also taught at the Catholic University in Lima.
In 1964, he returned to the USA and settled in New York. In 1965-66 he prepared his plans for the renovation of the St. Francis Chapel in New York which was an overwhelming success. In 1966, he had an individual exhibition in the Far Gallery in New York which attracted much attention.
From 1959 to 1976, Osze participated in significant exhibitions at the following spaces:
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Baltimore Art Museum
YWCA, Boston
Springfield Art Museum, Massachusetts
Reading Art Museum, Pennsylvania
Le Monde Gallery, New York
Le Monde Gallery, Miami, Florida
The exhibition of the teaching staff of the Academy of Cusco, Cuzco, Peru
Arch Gallery, New York
Midland Art Museum, Midland, Texas
De Young Museum, San Francisco
McNey Art Institute YWCA, Boston
Batler Art Institute, Ohio
Modern Museum of Denver, Colorado
International Art Exhibition (Bertrand Russel) Nottingham, England
National Art Museum, New JerseyFrom 1970 to 1983 he often visited his homeland. His work was exhibited in the Thúry György Museum, Nagykanizsa, in the Budapest Art Hall and in the Pécs Gallery.
For the last 14 years of his life Osze lived in Florida. There, he created the most significant part of his paintings. Andrew Osze died on l7th June 1995. He created and wrote with a rare spiritual clearness to the end.
Two years after his death in 1997 the "Andrew Osze Foundation" organized the first exhibition at Casteliotissa in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Many of his paintings are being exhibited for the first time, and we have the privilege to provide this first venue to New York.
Fourteen of Osze's works are housed in the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest. Fifty of his statues and fifty of his drawings are on permanent display in the Nagykanizsa Museum, Hungary; three drawings in the Tamasi Museum, eleven drawings in Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs; one drawing in the Bolyai Museum, Tirgu Mures /Marosvásárhely/, Romania; twelve works in the National Museum of Poland, Warsaw. In the United States of America, Osze's works are in the Modern Museum of Denver, in the Hanley Collection, New York and in many private collections throughout the country. His statues also can be seen in Brazil, Peru, Italy, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Romania the Netherlands and Cyprus.