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Born in Hejőcsaba, Hungary, Zoltán Székács attended the grammar school of the reformed Church at Miskolc.
While from 1940 to 1945 he was a pupil of István Szõnyi’s, a master whose name is a guarantee of both technical and progressive artistic perfection, in his last year he worked as Nándor Lajos Varga’s assistant at the graphics department of the College of Fine Arts in Budapest. He regularly exhibited both in and out of the capital from 1942, and he was still at college when he exhibited his pictures made at Nagybánya and Felsõbalog at various exhibitions in Budapest and Rimaszombat (Rimavská Sobota).
Having worked at Lake Balaton as a member of the Vörösberényi artists’ group between 1955 and 1960, he became fascinated by the Danube bend from 1960 where he painted landscapes at the Nagymaros artists’ colony. Especially attracted by backwater stretches of the Tisza river near Mártély, which can still be admired in many of his inspired oil paintings and aquarelles, his interest shifted towards the Great Hungarian Plain around 1968, from which year until his death he regularly worked at the Kecskemét artists’ colony.
His genuinely truthful rendering of colour, delicate emphasis on lines stressing the typical, and careful balancing of the volume and proportions of his motives all contribute to his lucid and representation and sensual depiction of the landscape. Right from the onset, however, that endeavour was coupled with a pictorial vehemence and an eruptive creative ambition that was manifest in the full emotional richness of his work. Székács, who usually made on-the-site studies, also loved to vary his techniques, and was equally at home with aquarelle, gouache, pastel and oil.
This is what he says in the catalogue of his last exhibition in 1982: “Nature I’m not willing to part with; the philosophy behind by painting is that my vision transforms it. I want to express that which is beautiful, which true, is human”.
Study trips: Italy 1962, Poland 1963, Czechoslovakia 1964, Germany 1965.
Individual exhibitions:
Budapest 1961
Budapest 1965
Hamburg 1965
Nagykanizsa 1971
Zalaegerszeg 1975
Miskolc 1979
Salgótarján 1982
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