Gyula Frimmel

 
 
 
   
 

I was born on the 27th of December in 1955 in Zalagerszeg
I enrolled to the Fine Arts Secondary Grammar School in 1972. My teachers were: Gacs Gábor,
Pásztor Gábor, Szabó Béla. I took my final exams in 1976.
After it I worked for the Hungarian National Gallery as a exhibition director.
In 1978 I started my studies at the Hungarian Fine Arts College, specialized in mimeograph graphics.
My tutors were: Dienes Gábor, Raszler Károly, Rozanits Tibor, Kocsis Imre, Kőnig Róbert.
In 1982 I got my degree of graphics artist and secondary school teacher. Since that August I made
commercial graphic works for the Zala Press Co. in Zalaegerszeg.
I also took part in several grouped and individual exhibitions with my unique and multiplicated works.
In 1988 I became a practising graphic artist.
In 1991 a Fine Art Secondary School was opened in Zalaegerszeg where I started to teach graphic arts and drawings
as a private teacher.
In 1993 I become a full-time teacher.
In 2002 I was delegated to head drawing teacher.
In 2005 I was elected for the president of the organization of the artists living in Zalaegerszeg.
I beared this position until the February of 2006.

Individual exhibitions
1983 Service Club, Zalaegerszeg
1987 SZOT Kamara Gallery, Hévíz
1988 Hevesi Sándor Theatre, Zalaegerszeg
1991 Hevesi Sándor Cultural Center, Nagykanizsa
1993 Town Concert and Exhibition Hall, Zalaegerszeg
1995 Europazentrum, Graz, Austria
2003 Gönczi Cultural Centre, Zalaegerszeg
2005 Museum of Göcsej, Zalaegerszeg
2005 Cultural Center, Répcelak
2006 Alsólenva, Slovenia

Grouped exhibitions
1984 Lendva, Slovenia
1995 Udine, Italy
1998 Surgut, Russia
2003 Varkaus, Finland
2005 Krakow, Poland

Awards
1990 Special Prize of the Transdanubian Gallery, Kaposvár
1995, 1997 Special Prize of the Autumn Gallery, Hódmezővásárhely

About my works
Besides teaching, I produce different kinds of artworks.
I mainly use facsimile techniques for my plates which generally made by intaglio print.
At the turning point of the ’80 and ’90 I made several unique drawings.
Most of them were drawing by clack ink but the others were made by other techniques.
My workshop was furnished for line engraving int hat time. Sometimes I make lino and wooden
engravings (cuts). SInce the early ’90 I have been working with mezzotinto technique increasingly
which I used by its own and later with other techniques.
I got loved this technique because of its effects and statuesqueness. My older drawings were
rather abstract works than representational. They wore motives which challenged the
recognization of the objects on the picture: they were actually between the real and unreal.

For the last 15 years I have been drawing realistic details with the unreal: this outwardly method
gives the tenseness of the pictures. The parts of the drawings were made of different techniques
which accelerate the effect of alienation. Like in literal works when various language layers
changes in the same text.