Ábrahám rafael: hotel claudius, Szombathely - colored, marked, retro etching, 1970s

Rafael Ábrahám (1929—2014): hotel claudius, colored etching, paper, marked, in a modern frame. Indicated below right: Ábrahám Raphael; indicated below left: hotel claudius. Graphic/etching size: 29x38 cm, framed size: 42.5 x 52.5 cm. It is in good, undamaged condition as shown in the pictures.

Construction began in 1970 and the Hotel Claudius was handed over in 1972 on Bartók Béla Körút in Szombathely. The representative hotel was built at a cost of forty million forints by hungarhotels, as well as the Vas county and Szombathely city councils.

The hotel's designer is Péter Fazakas, an YBL award-winning architect who later became the chief architect of Vas County. His most important works built in Szombathely: mop house (1963), the kiosk restaurant (1964), four medium-rise residential buildings in the Derkovits housing estate (1963/1965), the Franciscan beer hall (1984). The "round house" in Vasvár (1968), he designed the written stone hostel in Kőszeg (1976), and the Roman Catholic church in Czörötne (1985).

Rafael Ábrahám (Szombathely, 1929 — 2014) graphic designer, painter. In 1962, he graduated from the duplicating graphic arts department of the Budapest College of Fine Arts as a student of Jenő Barcsay, Gyula Hincz, Sándor ék and György Kádár. He settled in Budapest, but between 1957 and 1977 he worked regularly at the artist colony in Kecskemét. In 1989 and 1990, he won the art prize of the city of Kecskemét. He made longer study trips in England, Italy, and Sweden. From 1964, he appeared in exhibitions. In addition to the Miskolc graphic art biennale series and other domestic exhibitions, he was also presented in Vienna, London, Kyoto, New York, among others. His works can be found in the collections of the Hungarian National Gallery, the Kecskemét Picture Gallery, the Hermann Otto Museum in Miskolc, the Petőfi Literary Museum, and the Dürer Museum in Nuremberg.