Károly KLIMÓ
Born in Békéscsaba in 1936. Completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest between 1956 and 1962. Has taken part in group exhibitions at home and abroad since 1966. Was invited to head evening classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1972. Held his first one-man show in Budapest in 1974. Has held solo exhibitions abroad (in Austria, the United States, Finland, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland etc) since 1979. Head of the painting department and tutor at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1990 to 2005. Member of the Széchenyi Literary and Arts Academy since 1993. Awarded the Munkácsy prize in 1972, the Juho Rissanen prize in Finland in 1980, the title Artist of Merit in 1998 and the Herder prize in 2005.
Lives and works in Budapest and the hills above Lake Balaton.
