The painter Péter Kovács was born in Budapest in 1943. He studied art in his native town at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts between 1964 and 1970. His masters were Géza Fónyi, and the creator of artistic anatomy, Jenõ Barcsay. Péter Kovács began exhibiting in 1971 at several representative show-rooms of Budapest and at museums and galleries of country towns . Later, from the beginning of the eighties, his works, as individual collections, gradually travelled to exhibitions in Western Europe as well. (Basel, Munich, Wiesbaden, Hamburg) His works are also to be found in significant Hungarian and European art collections, such as - among others - the Ludwig Collection of Aachen, the Riz Collection of Bolzano and the Hungarian National Gallery. In 1971 his work was honoured with the Derkovits-Scholarship, specially founded for talented young artists. In the eighties, he had the opportunity to work, as holder of another scholarship, in Switzerland, Sweden and in Italy, at the Hungarian Academy of Rome. In 1985 he was awarded one of the highest Hungarian art prizes, the Munkácsy Price.