Miklós Borsos

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Miklós Borsos

Miklós Borsos (1906-1990) was a Hungarian sculptor. His style integrated elements of archaic art and classicism with modern elements.

Born in Nagyszeben, Transylvania (present-day Sibiu, Romania), he and his family settled in Győr in 1921; Borsos and his wife lived in the same Győr house until the end of World War II.

He became interested in art and particularly sculpture in the late 1920s (although he initially began as a painter, he dedicated his interest to sculpture during the 1930s, and bcame accomplished in the latter art by 1940). Up to the end of the 1940s, Borsos' art was tightly connected to the modern Hungarian plastic art represented by Fülöp Ö. Beck, Béni Ferenczy, and Ferenc Medgyessy.

From about 1950 onwards, his developed more intellectual, abstract, and experimental approaches. Borsos's form of expression and the subjects of his art were connected with the intensity of his experiences and views.

Borsos made use of all sculptural genres, and enriched them with several new solutions. He developed embossing of copper plates (which was a rare technique at that point in history), and produced a number of sculptures for public places and sepulchral monuments focusing on a modern environmental culture which often bore a deep personal message and reflected great intimacy (combining symbolic motifs of natural life, as well as cultural values). Borsos also became focused on portrait art during the late 1950s and 1960s, where his work integrated aspects of nature, atmosphere, as well as cultural and spiritual traditions into a new genre of sculptural art. Works of this period include the Portrait of József Egry (1952), Sybilla Pannonica (1963), Lighea (1968), The Young Parca (1964), and Canticus Canticorum (1977).

In 1979 Borsos opened the Miklós Borsos Art Gallery in Győr, formerly a courthouse of the Győr Bishopric. It is situated in the oldest neighbourhood of the city, near the Saint Michael Chapel.