GORKA, Géza
(1894, Nagytapolcsány - 1971, Budapest)



Ceramist. He went to school in Nagytopolcsány and Trencsén. Gorka, who wanted to become a painter, went to Mezőtúr where he learnt pottery from Balázs Badár, a potter. In 1919 he went to Germany where he became a pupil of Paul Mann in Leukirchen, and that of the art director of the Großherzogliche Majolikamanufaktur in Karlsruhe where he learnt the latest glazing techniques.

On his return to Hungary in 1922 he worked in the workshop of Balázs Badár in Mezőtúr. His ceramics were first exhibited in Vienna in 1928 where they attracted a good deal of attention. In 1923 he moved to Nógrádverőce and founded the Keramos Company to produce modern decorative ceramics following the traditions of Hungarian folk-art. When the Company went bankrupt in 1927, he started to work on his own. Amorphous and assymetric forms became more and more dominant in his art in the 1950s. He had several exhibitions in Hungary and abroad.



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