Lujo Bezeredi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lujo Bezeredi

Hungarian artist

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1898

Place of Birth: Nova, Zala County, Hungary

Date of Death: 20-Apr-1979

Profession: sculptor, ceramist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Lujo Bezeredi (Bezeredy) (1898 – April 20, 1979) was a Croatian-Hungarian sculptor and painter. He was born in Nova, Hungary, to Hungarian-Slovak father and Croatian mother, but after the death of his parents he moved to Cakovec, Croatia, where he completed his schooling at the public school and teacher's training school.
He later studied at the College of Education in Budapest and enrolled the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1922. Between 1936 and 1941 he lived in Belgrade.
As a material for sculptures he mostly used terra cotta, with engobe being his favourite pottery technique along with less frequently used faience and glazing techniques.
His work is characterized by social motifs from urban and rural life.
In 1942 he returned to Cakovec, where he lived with his wife until his death. Bezeredi donated his entire collection of 485 various works of art to the Medimurje County Museum in Cakovec.
He is buried at the city cemetery in Cakovec.