01 Painting, Arno Rink's Men II, with footnotes

Ákos Birkás

Men II., c. 2006

Oil on canvas

100 x 210 cm

Ludwig Museum Museum of Contemporary Art

Ákos Birkás is known for his Heads series, his abstract ovals painted as a programme from the mid-eighties up till the late nineties, comprising nearly two hundred pieces in all. 

Ákos Birkás was born in Budapest in 1941. Between 1959 and 1964, he studied painting at the Hungarian College of Fine Arts, and after obtaining his diploma, he was a teacher at the Vocational College of Fine and Applied Arts in Budapest until 1984. In 1989, he received the Herder Prize. In the early 1990s, he taught at the Summer Academy in Salzburg and at the State College of Fine Arts in Dijon (École Nationale des Beaux-Arts). He created as a scholarship holder in Dijon, Berlin, Bamberg, among others. In 1993, he received the Munkácsy Award, and in 1998, he was recognized as an Outstanding Artist. Between 2003 and 2005, he was a lecturer at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 1986, he participated in the XLII. at the Venice Biennale. In 2006, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest organized an exhibition of his 30 years of work. More on Ákos Birkás

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