István Orosz

Istvan Orosz works both as a film director and a graphic artist. He was born in Kecskemét, Hungary in 1951. He was trained as a graphic designer at the University of Arts and Design in Budapest. After graduation in 1975, he began to deal with theatre as a stage designer and animated films as an animator and film director. Later, when poster came to the center of his interest he made mainly theatre, movie and exhibition posters. He is known as a printmaker and an illustrator, as well. He is a regular participant at the major international biennials of posters and graphic designs and his works has been shown in individual and group exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. He is a film director at the Pannonia Film Studio in Budapest, professor of the University of West Hungary in Sopron, member of the Alliance Graphique International and the Hungarian Art Academy.