The honorary president of the Hungarian Academy of Arts was 88 years old.

György Fekete, an interior designer, applied artist, nation artist and honorary president of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA), died in the 88th year of his life, MMA reported to MTI on Wednesday. “György Fekete was assassinated on Wednesday. The honorary president is mourned by the Hungarian Academy of Arts in deep pain and is considered his own dead,” they said.

György Fekete was born in Zalaegerszeg in 1932. He studied at the Hungarian College of Applied Arts. He became a managing designer for the General Building Design Company (ÁÉTV) and later an applied independent artist. At the beginning of the eighties he was the director of the Secondary School of Fine Arts and Applied Arts, and since 1997 he was a university professor at the University of Sopron.

His artistic work covered almost all areas of interior design. He planned facilities for exhibitions in museums, public buildings, interiors of reformed churches, schools, holiday hotels, houses of culture and Hungarian exhibitions abroad, although he considered his original profession to be fleeting: “I designed the team of 36 banks, none of them today, “he said once.

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As a cultural politician

In my public and professional activities, I am more interested in the feminine principle, I am interested in giving birth, caring and educating.

The Kossuth Award winning artist told HVG four years ago. He was present throughout his life in politics, although he expressed it this way, considering that his years in politics were a loss. In any case, he told HVG: “I was actively and happily politicizing when I felt that I could be a factor in it, and then I realized that I lacked my abilities. He was also a pro-government and opposition representative: agreeing to everything and then disagreeing is not for an intellectual. I happily returned to art. “

György Fekete began his political career shortly before the regime change, when he joined the MDF in 1988. He established the National Cultural Fund as Secretary of State for the Antall government, and in 1995 became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. The MMA became a public body in the fall of 2011, which was surrounded with great outrage as the association, originally affiliated with Imre Makovecz, received outstanding government support (both financially and ideologically), was responsible for distributing cultural subsidies and owning valuable cultural institutions and properties. György Fekete became the president of this institution, which rose to the rank of public body, and since October 2017 he continued to work as an honorary president of the academy.

He also received the Grand Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit from Viktor Orbán in the same year. The Prime Minister then said: György Fekete is one of those who tries to make visible the unique spirit of the diverse Hungarian culture. Without maintaining and living this spirituality, we can lose what makes Europe a Europe and Hungary a Hungary.



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