Lujo Bezeredi

The native form of this personal name is Bezerédi Lajos. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Lujo Bezeredi
Portrait of Bezeredi and his signature
Born	(1898-11-21)21 November 1898 Nova, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	20 April 1979(1979-04-20) (aged 80) Čakovec, Croatia
Nationality	Hungarian, Croat
Known for	Sculpture, drawing

Gravestone of Lujo Bezeredy and his wife Marija at the Čakovec cemetery

Lujo Bezeredi (also spelled Bezeredy, Hungarian: Bezerédi Lajos; 1898 – April 20, 1979) was a Croatian-Hungarian sculptor and painter.

He was born in Nova, Kingdom of Hungary, to a Hungarian-Slovak father and a Croatian mother. After the death of his parents, he moved to Csáktornya (present-day Čakovec, Croatia), where he completed his schooling at the public school and teacher's training school. He later studied at the College of Education in Budapest and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1922.

Between 1936 and 1941 he lived in Belgrade. As a material for sculptures he mostly used terra cotta, with engobe being his favourite pottery technique along with less frequently used faience and glazing techniques. His work is characterized by social motifs from urban and rural life. In 1942 he returned to Csáktornya, where he lived with his wife until his death.

Bezeredi donated his entire collection of 485 various works of art to the Međimurje County Museum in Čakovec. He is buried at the city cemetery in the same town.

The Returner, a sculpture of Bezeredy in a park in Čakovec

External links

• Biography in the Croatian Biographical Lexicon (in Croatian)
• Bezeredi - renowned artist from Medjimurje