The graphic artist and sculptor Antal Czinder was born in Budapest in 1937. In the period from 1956 to 1962 he attended the Hungarian Fine Art Academy where the masters József Somogyi, Iván Szabó and Béni Ferenczy taught him. From 1965 to 1968 he was a Derkovits scholar.

Prizes: 1969: Studio of Young Fine Artists’ Society Balogh János Portrait Contest Prize; 1970: II. National Statuette Biennial Prize; 1976: FIDEM Medal Contest II. Prize; 1977: I. National Medal Art Biennial, Prize of the Administration Committee, III. Prize of the Hall of Arts Company; 1981: Munkácsy Prize; 1983: VI. Dante Biennale, Gold Medal of the Town of Ravenna; 1988: Prize by the National Committee of Trade Unions; 1991: Sopron Medal Art Biennale, Civitas Fidelissima Prize.

She first showed in 1962. He has been teaching at the Secondary School of Fine and Applied Art since 1968. He has been the secretary of the Sculptor Faculty of the Hungarian Fine- and Applied Artists since 1996. He obtained scholarship to Italy. Drawing was an easy task for him. His apt drawings were regularly published on pages of dailies and literature papers. Many of these were included at his exhibition due to their relation to the statuettes. He often chose bronze and terracotta for his statues and statuettes' material, but sometimes favoured stone.

His quality statues reflect great variation and imagination resembling Etruscan, Baroque, Expressionist, Cubist and Abstract traditions. The statues and statuettes are character portraits, stories, genre-scenes and pictorial landscapes, with lyrically realistic tone. Closely related works can be discovered both among his statues and medals. He enhanced the effect of some of the medals with painting and photo collages. The basic topic of his statues is the relations of humans and environment. His sociological sensitivity indices his sometimes grotesque, ironic or melancholic humour.

His maters were József Somogyi, Iván Szabó, Béni Ferenczy .

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