Portrait of Lajos Szabó
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    • Lajos Szabó
    1902–1967

    EXHIBITIONS

    Forthcoming exhibition

    THOUGHT FORMS. The Calligraphic Art of Lajos Szabó
    17 June to 28 June 2022. College Chapel, St. Peter's College, Oxford
    Curated by Balázs Szendrői and Nico Kos Earle

    Former exhibitions

    Presence-of-mind calligraphies 1957-1967. Gallery 2B, Budapest, 21 March - 23 April 2011. Curated by Ágnes Horváth, Balázs Szendrői and László Böröcz. Extracts from Lajos Szabó's writings selected by Á. Tábor, multimedia: J. Bali.Opening musical performance: János Bali, Calligraphy
    On-line catalogue of the exhibition

    Presence-of-mind calligraphies: the Inaugural Exhibition of the Ars GEometrica Art&Science Gallery at the Károly Eszterházy College, Eger, Hungary, 26 September - 8 November 2011. Curated by K. Liptai, K. Fenyvesi, I. Szilágyi, Á. Horváth, B. Szendrői
    Extracts from Lajos Szabó's writings selected by Á. Tábor (in Hungarian)
    "Axiomatics is poetry: the weighing of words" –
     Lectures and informal discussion on the works of Lajos Szabó
    8th November 2011, Eger, Ars GEometrica


    EIKON

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    joint exhibitions in Budapest (1997) and Düsseldorf (1998)
     curated by A. Kotányi

    (This catalogue is not yet available. For some writings see here)

    The Rebirth of the Image in the Age of Genetics

    Exhibition in Pannonhalma (Hungary), 1995
    A. Kotanyi's opening (in Hungarian)

    Szabó Lajos – an Introduction

    The 1980 exhibition in Budapest
    curated by D. Bíró and B. Kocsis
    Catalogue of the 1980 exhibition
    (in German and Hungarian)

    LAJOS SZABÓ - Dessins

    Galerie Lambert, Paris, 1966
    Documents in French with a poem by P. Chaulot    

    Zeichnerische Meditationen – Physiognomische Studien
     Meditations in Drawings – Physiognomical Studies
    'Karl-Ernst Osthaus' Museum Hagen, 1962

    Louis Szabó
    Galerie PTAH Bruxelles, 1960

    Zeichnerische Meditationen
    Meditations in drawings – Gartensaal Dortmund, 1960

    5 Hungarian Painters
    Lajos Vajda, Lajos Szabó, André Bálint, Attila Kotányi, Lyubomir Szabó
    Palais des Beaux Arts Bruxelles, 1958

    Other Exhibitions

    • Fokswang Museum, Essen, 1964
    • Strake Galerie, Düsseldorf, 1961
    • Palais des Congres, Berlin, 1960
    • Haus der Begegnung, München, 1960
    • Haus der Begegnung, Hamburg, 1960
    • Private exhibitions, Budapest, 1955 and 1956

    From reading to drawing

    Some pages from Jaspers' book on Nietzsche with the marginal notes of Lajos Szabó

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