Ferenc Halmos
Zinc Silicate Crystalline Glaze Pottery
Ferenc Halmos
Biography
Ferenc Halmos was born in 1956 in Pécs, Hungary
He took his degree on the University of Chemistry in Veszprém.
He has been working with ceramics since 1978.
He taught ceramic technology on the University of Applied Arts in Budapest for 3 years.
He has been working as an own-account ceramist in his workshop in Bánd (Hungary) since 1989.
He has been the member of the Artist Guild of Veszprém since 1993.
He has been the member of the Union of Hungarian Artists since 1996.
Individual exhibitions:
1993 Tapolca
1994 Várpalota
1999 Keszthely
2004 Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
2005 Herend Porcelánmúzeum
The most important common exhibitions:
1990, 1992,1994, 1996, 2000 Pécs, Kerámia Biennálé
1994-2000 Veszprém – „Tavaszi Tárlat”
1998 Budapest, Museum of Applied Arts – „Szolgáló tárgyaink”
1999 Budapest, Museum of Applied Arts – „Keramik Art 1945-99”
1999 Tihany
1999 Tegelen, De Tiendschuur,Holland – „Kristalglasuren uit West-Europe”
2000 Veszprém „Veszprém-Bakony-Balaton Exhibition” (2. price)
2000 Köln, Keramion „Europaische Keramik aus der Sammlung Adolf Egner”,Germany
2001 Leeuwarden-Noordhorn, Holland – „New crystalline glazes”
2004 Klagenfurt, Market-exhibition: „Lichtobjekt” (1. price) , Austria
2004 Gmunden, Market-exhibition: „Noahs Ark” (3. price), Austria
2005 Bonnieux, France
2005 Roussillon, Okhra, France
The man on the photo is 51 years old and is me. I started my selfeducation in the library at Herend Porcelain Manufactory. I was lucky to find there issues of the Ceramics Review and Monthly. At these time I was working at the majolika department of this factory. One time I visited a ceramics research center in Budapest and I have seen there some test tiles with crystallglazes.I was totally amazed from it and I thinked : I must to make these like glaze!! Sorry i can not get about these glaze no any information because the woman, who made these, immigrated to the USA some years arlier . I must start from 0 point. At this time I have no kiln ,clay and frits for high temperature. All of my colleques was smilling about me. After one year I have got my first 3 mm ( 1\8 inch ) crystall and after another 3 months 3 inch big ! I like a crazy with glazes, because I wanted to know and to make too all kind of glazes. After more than 2000 glaze tests i have cooled little bit down. ( I hope you can understand my writing ! A question: There is not a meanspleasant ,dicey situation when I write to the Forum with my poor foreign anglaish ??? Adele hase wrote to me: "A ball mill is a foreign item to me, ..")
All year I starts to experiment with a new technik.
About me :
I live in Hungary (Europa) in a small village. I graduated as a chemie
engineer in 1980. I have got PhD and Researcher-Developer-Designer engineer
qualifications in the field of Petrolchemie.
I works with ceramics since 1978. I was worked as a production engineer for
cc 5 years at a majolika factory, and for three years as a quest teacher of
ceramics technology at the University of Applied Arts in Budapest. Since
1989 I works as a independent ceramist in my workshop in Bánd.
I make architectual ceramics, pots decorated with special glazes
(crystalline, reduction fired lüstre,coppermatt raku,oxblood,
celadon,....),portraits, .......etc
Hi People
I work with crystalline glazes since 1986. I had tested a lot of post firing
methods with fluid, solid and gas reduction. The best of mines was reduced with
hidrogen gas.( It is hihgly explosiv with oxigen !!!)
. I try to show some photos
About me : My full name is : dr Halmos Ferenc ( in Hungary we write the family name first,conversely as inthe USA ) I live in Hungary (Europa) in a small village (620 residents) 8443 Bánd Kossuth str 22 . I graduated as a chemie engineer in 1980. I have got PhD and Researcher-Developer-Designer engineer qualifications in the field of Petrolchemie.
I works with ceramics since 1978. I have learned ceramics from books and with the help of my experiments.At the sart I had no teacher, materials and kiln and machines. I digged out clay, mixed primitiv glazes from PbO and sand. It was really hard. 25 years ago in Hungary it was nearly impossible to buy materials and equipments necessary to highfired ceramics.I made myself all of the tools ,kilns, machines . I need to thinking about the usable cheep materials too. After the past decades I think it was the best school for me.I was forced to learn to make myself what the ceramists in the western word could buy simply.Fortunatelly our circumtances changed after 1989. I was worked as a production engineer for cc 5 years at a majolika factory, and for three years as a quest teacher of ceramics technology at the University of Applied Arts in Budapest. Since 1989 I works as a independent ceramist in my workshop in Bánd. I make architectual ceramics, pots decorated with special glazes (crystalline, reduction fired lüstre,coppermatt raku,oxblood, celadon,....),portraits, .......etc