Laszlo leaves behind his beloved wife Marta M. Nemeth, their two children aged 9 and 5, and many friends and colleagues around the world. He was a prolific artist and leaves behind also many wonderful graphics, poetry and enamels. As an artist of national importance and a devout Christian he was buried in lot number 42/1 in Kerepesi cemetery in Budapest, the last resting place of many of the greatest Hungarian artists and statesmen.
Laszlo Morvay was born in 1947 in Esztergom, Hungary; graduated from the Benedictine Grammar School of Pannonhalma, then received his diploma in Drawing at the Teacher's College of Eger. His graduate studies were conducted at the Academy of Fine Arts, working with Masters Laszlo Patay and Tibor Brada. In 1973 he received an MFA degree with distinction.
Since 1974 he had been living and working in Budapest as a graphic artist, mounting major exhibitions on a regular basis both at home and abroad, winning distinctions and august prizes along the way. Some of his Hungarian one-man-shows were in Esztergom, Pecs and Budapest where he won the 20th District Graphic Prize.
His foreign successes featured, to mention only a few, in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Algires, Japan and several US cities. He was a member of the National Association of Hungarian Creative Artists and of the Association of Graphic Artists.
In addition to his graphics, Laszlo had been making enamels for almost twenty years, working at the Enamel Workshop of Kecskemet where in 1995 he won the annual Grand Prize and in 1997 The Society of Hungarian Enamel Artists elected him as their first president.
His large-scale enamels decorate several main buildings both inside and outside and are exhibited in public squares at home as well as abroad. Some of his major standing works in Budapest are at the Paneuropa School, BRFK (Police Department of Budapest); Dobogoko: Holiday Hotel; Harkany: Church Garden; Nagyvarad and Toti (Romania): Castle-Church and Roman Catholic Church.
In 1996 he was commissioned to produce the enamel sculpture "The Seven Arrows of the Hungarians" celebrating Hungary's Millicentenary; the installation consisted of seven 12 meter-long arrows containing 56 enamel panels covering nearly 96 square-meters of space.
Laszlo's works, graphics and enamels alike, can be found in a variety of Hungarian and foreign private and public collections. By and large he produced two kinds of enamels: 1. sarcastic figurative works developing from the tangle of colored bunches of paint; 2. illustrative enamel graphics using the technique of melting of copper sheet and glass colored with oxides of metals which have Biblical themes and are mostly engaged in describing human relations and/or analyzing different ethical problems.
During all these creative years he remained a teacher in various capacities: between 1982-1995 he was senior lecturer of drawing, and instructor of figure-drawing, graphics and enamel art at the Janus Pannonius University of Pecs. From 1974 to the present he headed the Imre Gaal Youth & Children's Fine Arts Studio in Budapest.
His publications comprise of numerous Hungarian and foreign articles and critical studies on visual education and multifarous art artivities.
He will be sadly missed.
Condolences may be offered to Laszlo's family through Gyula Kiss, a close friend and colleague whose email address is: Gyula Kiss
