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Frank Varga, Sculpture
Varga Sculpturing Studio is known world wide for
works in stone and bronze.
Click to visit Varga website
Varga was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1943, and has resided in Belgium,
France, Italy, Canada and the United States. After serving an apprenticeship
with his father, Professor Ferenc Varga, an Internationally acclaimed sculptor,
he received a scholarship to study at the Academia di Belle Arte in Florence,
Italy. He worked under Florence's great sculptor, Antonio Berti whose great
works are found in the Vatican National Museum Collection, establishing the
beginnings of Frank Varga's International reputation.
Receiving his Doccumento di Arte from the Accademia di Belle Arte Florence Italy
in1964, he returned to the United States to continue his association with his
father Professor Ferenc Varga and also earned a BA in fine arts in 1980 from
Honolulu University.
Most sculptors who came to the modernist orbit moved on a route form
Expressionism to the other forms of abstraction and even back to traditional
realistic art. This trend is exemplified in Frank Varga's work of the past
years. His works in the 1960s were along orthodox lines of classical sculpture.
The period between the 1970s and 1980s is associated with more Abstract
Expressionism. The beginning of the 1990s shows a return to Modem Figurative
Art. This also means a return to the more realistic, to the intimate, to the
dramatic or lyrical realization of his sculptured forms
His commissioned work took him back to Italy on numerous occasions working on a
50' bronze for the Fort Lincoln in Washington, D.C. and a monumental marble
carving for Minneapolis, MN. During these periods he became acquainted with more
of his contemporaries from Henry Moore to Marini Marino and Jaques Lipchitz.
They, in turn, had a profound influence on his more modem works.
Varga has produced literally hundreds of sculptures ranging in size and
materials such as wood, metal and stone displaying his versatility in the
sculptured media. He is also noted for his monumental sculptures. One of
International acclaim was dedicated in 1986 in the harbor of Bremerhaven,
Germany. It is over 6 meters high, titled the Immigrants, and it faces towards
the United States. Every ship entering the port sails past the sculpture. The
dedication of this statue was coordinated with the re-dedication of the Statue
of Liberty, making this event a most celebrated International occasion. His work
is displayed in many cities throughout the world, including a portrait of John
F. Kennedy in the White House and a bronze portrait bust of Pope John Paul in
the Vatican.
Frank Varga's dedication to his art, with his fantastic attention to form,
detail and rhythm in each piece of sculpture he creates, insures his place in
the world as one of the truly gifted living sculptures.
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