Végvári Lajos: Kondor Béla emlékkiállítás a Herman Ottó Múzeum képtárában - Borsodi kiállítás vezetők 3. (Miskolc, 1977)

An exhibition held in commemoration of Béla Kondor

works of Signorelli, the trecento masters, Dürer, Grünewald, Hieronymus Bosch, and Rembrandt. Of his Hungarian predecessors he highly esteemed Kmetty, Uitz, and the activists. He finished his studies at the Academy producing his Dózsa series consisting of 22 leaves. The dramatic power of his work, his original style re-construing tradition were hotly discussed, it is this work that the renascence of Hungarian graphic can be dated back to.

His first exhibition took place in Adolf Fényes Hall in 1959, this was followed, in 1964, by his monumental show at Székesfehérvár. He often spent much of his time at the Miskolc colony of artists, and was among the first members of those who started on foot the Miskolc Graphical Biennal (biennial exhibition). It was he that won the Grand Prix of the second graphical biennal. In the same year he was awarded the prize of the Tokyo graphical biennal. In 1968 he made his coming out at the Venice biennal. He organized his last exhibition on his own in the Műcsarnok (Budapest Art-Gallery). He called into being a great number of illustrations, among others to the works of Blake, Dylan Thomas, Jarry, Madách, and Shakespeare. His only one panno is decorating the Margaret Island Grand Hotel (in Budapest). The Helicon Galéria (Gallery) made a show of his photos in 1973.

Béla Kondor is esteemed by his contemporaries and successors alike as a master founding a kind of school. He was a creator eating out his own heart, a personage ruthless to himself and to those around him alike, he embodied absolute

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