He is a leading figure of the contemporary Hungarian abstract, geometric art movement. His work as a visual arts educator and art organizer is also significant.
"In my work, I am clearly concerned with the question of surfaces. The spatial effect is derived from the relationship of surfaces to each other. The perception of space. The representation of space through the well chosen proportions of compositional and painterly means....
...Within the framework of the plane, the perception of space, for me, implies the possibility of moving from reality towards transcendence."
"I can best express myself in a series. This is perhaps the only aspect of my work that has a kinship with speech. There, too, we usually string several sentences together. But maybe it's more the influence of the music that is decisive. The successive passages together give the work its completeness." István Haász
In 1968 he graduated as a teacher of drawing at the Teacher Training College in Eger and in 1979 he graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (now University). For years he taught at the I. László Secondary School in Kőbánya, then he was the head teacher of the Fazekas Mihály Municipal Practical Secondary School. From 1988 he taught at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design for two decades. In 2005 he was invited as a visiting professor by the International Academy of Arts, Bremen – Vallauris, and in 2009 by the Budapest University of Technology.
During his career he was a member of several art groups, exhibiting at the Chapel Exhibitions in Balatonboglár in 1971 and 1973. He has been a member of the Szentendre Old Artists' Colony since 1989, and of the OSAS Open Structures Art Association since 2008. His work has been recognized with numerous scholarships and honors. The most important of them are scholarship holders of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York in 1991 and 1996, guest of the Atelierhaus Worpswede with a DAAD scholarship in 1992, Villa Waldberta (Feldafing) in 1994, and the Hungarian Academy in Rome in 1999, In 2004 he was awarded a scholarship to the city of Frankfurt am Main. Since 2009 he has been a full member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Art.
Honours:
1994: Gold Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
2002: Munkácsy Mihály Prize
2010: Artist of Merit
Since 1970 his works have been shown in more than 90 group exhibitions and 40 solo exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. His works can be found in about 30 public collections, including the Hungarian National Gallery, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, the Kiscelli Museum of the Budapest City Gallery, the Kassák Museum, the Paks Gallery, the Ferenczy Museum in Szentendre, the Modern Gallery - László Vass Collection in Veszprém. Abroad his works are owned by the collections of Miejska Galeria Sztu-ki, Łódź; Muzeum Okregowe, Chelm; Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt; Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch; Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg.
