Erzsébet Katona Szabó

textile artist

Cluj-Napoca, 5 September 1952 – Gödöllő, 5 February 2024

Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2011–2024)

Erzsébet Katona Szabó, a textile designer of Transylvanian origin, who has been living and working in Gödöllő, Hungary, since 1983, is a multi-faceted "industrial artist", a textile designer. Since the second half of the 1970s, after completing her studies at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Cluj-Napoca, her most prominent creative activity has been the design and construction of lyrical tapestries based on stylised natural motifs and of silk

Meritorious Artist of Hungary

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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2000

governmental award

Ferenczy Noémi Award

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

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