Lenke R. Kiss (1926-2000): Mother with child - 30cm - porcelain /unglazed/ sculpture, biscuit

After precise packaging, I only give away the small plastic as "fragile" goods.

Lenke R. Kiss was born on May 13, 1926.

He did not have much direct memory of it, as the family moved to Nagysalonta when he was two years old, so r. The Lenke of Kiss actually considered this small town his homeland, which he always thought back to with nostalgia. With the second decision in Vienna, in August 1940, Northern Transylvania, and with it Nagysalonta, returned to Hungary, and the family presumably took advantage of this to move to Budapest in 1941 in the hope of better job opportunities.

In 1951, he began his studies at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. During his college years, in 1952 and 1954, he had two sons, péter and györgy, but he continued his studies, in which his teachers pál pátzay and sándor mikus, in addition to their professional guidance, stood by him with their humanity.

He received his first public commission in 1958.
His second public work was the pitcher girl, which was originally prepared for a tender, and which was finally erected in Veszprém in 1961. During this work, the contacts with the county and city leaders of Veszprém were established, as a result of which they moved to Veszprém in 1964. The studio apartments built in the Fejes Valley seemed ideal for calm creative work in the proximity of nature.

From 1964 to 1980, Lenke R. Kiss's studio apartment in Veszprém was his home and workplace, and it was here that his most beautiful sculptures, large-scale public works, and great sculptures of the 1970s were born. Although there are public sculptures of him in many cities of the country and in Budapest, r. Lenke Kiss became an artist from Veszprém, loved the city, was attached to it, and participated in its fine art life. He was a regular participant in the annual autumn exhibitions and the spring exhibitions, and he represented Veszprém with his sculptures, in his sister city in Gladsexe in Denmark, and he had a representative exhibition in Merseburg, the then NDK, in the framework of the sister county relations.

Since 1957, it has been a member of the Fine Arts Foundation, and since 1966 it has been a member of the Association of Hungarian Visual Artists. He received the József Egry Award twice, in 1967 and 1977. He worked continuously, even in those years when he did not receive state commissions, he was always preoccupied with a problem to be solved, and as public works were relegated to the background, Hungarian art history was enriched by him with sensitive small sculptures.

He died on January 18, 2000 at the age of seventy-four.