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György Bartusz

sculptor
Kamenín, 23 October 1933 – Košice, 25 September 2025
Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2011–2025)
György Bartusz (Juraj Bartusz J.) was born in 1933 in Kamenín (Kéménd), Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). He is a sculptor, painter, graphic artist and action artist, and a university professor. An outstanding artistic personality of post–Second World War Central European visual culture, he is a defining figure of the Central European avant-garde,
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Parallel Life Paths
2024
governmental award

Order of Ľudovít Štúr

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2004
governmental award

Munkácsy Mihály Award

Hungarian state award granted in recognition of outstanding achievements in visual arts.

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2003
governmental award

Silver Plaque of the Slovak Republic

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1985
governmental award

Meritorious Artist of the Hungarian People’s Republic

State award for artists who have created outstanding artistic values over a prolonged period in Hungarian national culture and artistic fields (theatre, music, dance, circus, film, visual, photography, applied arts), and who already hold an artistic award granted by the minister responsible for culture. The recipient is entitled to the title “Meritorious Artist of Hungary” (short: “Meritorious Artist”).

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