Németh János: Gyökerek. Gondolatok családról, mesterségről, művészetről (Zalaegerszeg, 2002)

Biography (Summary)

39. Zierbrunnen mit der Legende vom Wunderhirsch, 2001, Százhalombatta, Schamottrelief mit Tonüberzug, Detail 40. Zierbrunnen mit der Legende vom Wunderhirsch, 2001, Százhalombatta, Schamottrelief mit Tonüberzug, Detail 41. Zierbrunnen mit der Legende vom Wunderhirsch, 2001, Százhalombatta, Schamottrelief mit Tonüberzug, Detail 42. Triptichon Hygeia und Aesculapius, mit den Figuren von Sankt-Kozma und Sankt-Damján, 1986, Zalaegerszeg, Kígyó-Apotheke, Schamottrelief mit Tonüberzug, 210x340 cm 43. Lebensbaum, 1994, Zalaegerszeg, Kinizsi Pál Fachschule für Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittelindustrie, Schamottrelief mit Tonüberzug, 5 m

2 44. Sankt Rokus, 1995, Zalaegerszeg, Postbank, Schamottrelief mit Tonüberzug, 170 cm 45. Kronenwächter aus Zala 1797, Zalaegerszeg, ehemaliges Quartierhaus, 1997, Schamottrelief mit Tonüberzug, 4 m

2 46. Denkmal des Kampfes gegen die Türken, 2001, Zalaegerszeg, Zwei Schamottreliefs mint Tonüberzug, 60x75 cm, Plastiken 35 cm, Architekt Károly Szerdahelyi 47. Zierbrunnen mit der Legende vom Wunderhirsch, 2001, Százhalombatta, Schamottrelief mit Tonüberzug, 120x820 cm, Architekt Károly Szerdahelyi Auf dem hinteren Deckblatt: Zalaegerszeg, Forest Hungary Bürohaus, 2002, Samottrelief mit Tonüberzug, 300x200 cm BIOGRAPHY (SUMMARY) János Németh was born in Zalaegerszeg in 1934. His grandfather, Gábor Németh, started a workshop as a stove artisan in Zalaegerszeg in 1884, and his beautiful ornamental tile stoves became popular within a short time. The grandparents brought up eight children, of whom two boys continued the craft of stove making and one of them became a potter. The father, János Németh senior, putting his artistic ambitions involuntarily aside, accepted responsibility for the workshop and developed it according to his ability. János Németh was brought up in this big and affectionate family and became acquainted with pottery in his boyhood. He played a lot around the clay pits of the huge courtyard, and listened to the tales of the craftsmen and the members of the family when they burned tiles. There he began to pug the clay and to form the magic world he had experienced. After leaving secondary school he spent a year working in his father's former workshop (which had been nationalised), then he took an entrance examination successfully to the Department of Ceramics of the Academy of Applied Arts. The "rough" young man with no qualifications was educated and shaped affectionately by his great masters István Gádor and Miklós Borsos. He took his degree in 1958 then he won a one-year scholarship. At this time he created the figure of the Red Cock, which he regards as the first and the most important step in his career. Now it belongs to the Museum of Applied Arts. 153