Péter Kovács

painter and graphic artist

Budapest, 15 June 1943 – Budapest, 21 July 2019

Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2012–2013)

Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2013–2019)

Building on his increasingly intense drawing practice during his high school years – driven primarily by his reading experiences and his growing ambition to illustrate – Péter Kovács applied to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1961. In 1962, the few weeks of study he spent at the Dési Huber István Art Circle, along with the craft techniques he learned from Jenő Barcsay’s anatomy book,

Kossuth Prize

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

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2000

governmental award

Outstanding Artist of the Republic of Hungary

One of the most prestigious Hungarian state awards for the arts. The recipient is entitled to use the title “Outstanding Artist of Hungary” (short: “Outstanding Artist”). Only those who already hold the Meritorious Artist award and have held it for at least five years are eligible.

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1989

governmental award