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Harold Balazs

Harold Balazs (1928 - 2017) was active/lived in Ohio.  Harold Balazs is known for Abstract design enameling.

Born in Westlake, Ohio in 1928, Harold Balazs took Saturday morning art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art as a child.  Although in his early teens at the time, Balazs remembers being particularly impressed with two enamel panels by Edward Winter "in the stairway to art classes in the Cleveland art museum where I studied from 1938 to 1941."  Balazs realized at this early age: "I wanted to do to that some day - enamel!"

He went on to study painting and drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago and to receive a B.F.A. degree from Washington State University in 1951.  At WSU, the Czech-born artist George Laisner introduced him to the spare, geometric work of Bauhaus masters Gyorgy Kepes and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.  Laisner also rekindled Balazs's early passion "by exposing us to a minimum of enameling."

After graduating, Balazs supported himself and his family by "freelancing at any and all things" including "making lots of enamel jewelry, bracelets, cuffli   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2217 characters.]  Artist bio

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