Bálint Magyar [SEP] position held
His paternal grandparents were the journalist Elek Magyar and Berta Kürthy who was granddaughter of the late Hungarian Prime Minister Bertalan Szemere. His father is the writer and theatre manager Bálint Magyar, Sr. His mother, Olga Siklós (b. Schwarcz), was born to a Jewish family from Kolozsvár. Bálint has a sister, Fruzsina who is the wife of Imre Mécs. Bálint Magyar's wife is Róza Hodosán, a former member of the National Assembly of Hungary. They have a daughter, Annamária.
Career.
Since 2008
held at the Hungarian National Gallery. A commemorative stamp with one of his self-portraits was issued in 1969 and a statue in his honor (showing him in his trademark hat), by , was created in 1975 and placed in Kós Károly Park.
Further reading.
- "Nagy Balogh János élete és művészete" (Life and art), Exhibition catalog, Elek Artúr Budapest, Amicus (1922)
- Jenő Bálint, "Nagy Balogh János magyar festő tragédiája", biographical supplement, in "Pesti