Miklós Borsos

Who was Miklós Borsos?

Miklós Borsos was a Hungarian sculptor and medallist. His style integrated elements of archaic art and classicism with modern elements.

Born in Nagyszeben, Transylvania, 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. 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, he 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, 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.