Lajos Káldy was born in Csipkerek village in Vas County, in 1922. The artist is now 88 years old. Although he only spent six years in his home village, and then grew up in an industrial environment, these six years were formative of his point of view to this day. Later in life Káldy became a machinist and then received a degree as an Art and Geography teacher.

Káldy began to paint in 1947, after the war, in the Derkovits Gyula Fine Art Open School in Szombathely. His masters were Árpád Radnóti Kovács, Nándor Burány and István Jaksa. During his career, Káldy worked with charcoal, oil-paint, and made wood engravings and linocuts but finally stayed with his favourite medium, water-colour. Káldy’s love of ethnography is evident in all his village-themed paintings, and even in his still-life paintings. In the past 15 years, the artist’s attention has turned towards wine cellars, which are the decaying treasures of our ethnography; visitors to the Museum will be able view a wonderful selection of these works at the exhibition.

In the course of his artistic career, Káldy has had 40 solo exhibitions, and in 2008 he was given an Exceptional Cultural Work award in Szombathely for the decades of his outstanding work in the fields of art education and fine art.

Entrance fee: Adult: 600 HUF
Student: 300 Ft"

Source: mezogazdasagimuzeum.hu