József HALLER

🎨 The retrospective exhibition features ink drawings created by József Haller in the 1970s and 1980s, in which Haller uses the dramatic power of the line to illustrate the general aspects of the human condition, sacrifice, and existential loneliness, as well as the artist’s pastels, which constitute a particularly sensitive and nuanced chapter of József Haller’s oeuvre and focus on the fundamental questions of human existence, as well as mythological and biblical themes. At the same time, the exhibition also features sketches of dolls, full of life and with a unique character.
 
🌟 The exhibition displays works owned by the artist’s son, István Haller, as well as works from the collections of László Szepessy and Dr. Csaba Salat. In addition, the selection is complemented by works from the collection of the Mureș County Museum and the György Bernády Foundation in Târgu Mureș.

👨🏽‍🎨 József Haller was born on January 24, 1935, in Satu Mare. He studied painting at the High School of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca, then sculpture at the “Ion Andreescu” Institute of Fine Arts, where his teachers included Ion Irimescu, Artúr Vetró, and András Kós. Between 1959 and 1999, he worked as a set designer and puppet maker at the State Puppet Theater in Târgu Mureș (now the “Ariel” Theater). He regularly participated in exhibitions and creative workshops both in Romania and abroad and served on the board of the Mureș branch of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania. He passed away on March 2, 2017, in Târgu Mureș.