Pierre Szekely
Born11 June 1923
Budapest, Hungary
Died3 April 2001 (age 77)
Paris, France
NationalityHungarian, French
Known forSculptor
SpouseVera Szekely

Pierre Szekely (11 June 1923) was a Hungarian sculptor, architect and educator. In the 1940s, after surviving the holocaust, Szekely became a resident of France, and eventually became an avant-garde architect and international lecturer of art philosophy.

Early life

Szekely was a student of Hanna Dallos. After being interned in a Nazi concentration camp, he escaped to France in 1946, where by the 1950s he had developed a reputation for sculpture and architecture.[1][2]

In 1975,[3] Szekely completed La Dame du Lac, which is an iconic climbing wall in the suburbs of Paris.[4] The Dame du Lac is considered to have played an instrumental role in the development of Parkour by David Belle,[5] made famous by early montages such as Speed Air Man (1997).

  1. ↑ Alison, Jane (1984). The New Hungarian Quarterly. Corvina Publishing House. p. 322.
  2. ↑ Darmon, Adrian M. (2003). Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie des peintres, photographes et sculpteurs (in French). Carnot. p. 288. ISBN 978-2-84855-011-4.
  3. ↑ Székely, Pierre (1977). "A Sculpture in Concrete for Practicing Alpinism". Leonardo. MIT Press. 10 (3): 225–226. doi:10.2307/1573430. JSTOR 1573430. S2CID 192941068.
  4. ↑ Kim, Demie (23 February 2017). "From Picasso to Noguchi, 11 Artists Who Designed Spectacular Playgrounds". Artsy.
  5. ↑ Angel, Julie (July 2016). Breaking the Jump: The Secret Story of Parkour's High Flying Rebellion. Aurum Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-78131-554-5.
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