Ilona Lovas

visual artist

Budapest, 1 January 1946 – Budapest, 15 August 2021

Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2011–2021)

If we were to examine Ilona Lovas’s oeuvre – who graduated from the textile department of the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest in 1974 – within the context of the

Kossuth Prize

The highest Hungarian state decoration for the cultivation and preservation of Hungarian culture.

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2005governmental award

Meritorious Artist of the Republic of Hungary

State award for artists who have long created outstanding artistic achievements in Hungarian national culture and in the fields of theatre, music, dance, circus arts, film, fine arts, photography, and applied arts, and who have already received an art award granted by the minister responsible for culture. The recipient is entitled to use the title “Meritorious Artist of Hungary” (short: “Meritorious Artist”).

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1992governmental award

Ferenczy Noémi Award

A state decoration awarded in recognition of outstanding achievements in applied arts and industrial design.

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