Pierre Szekely

Born: 1923

Biography:

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. He 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. In 1975, Szekely completed La Dame du Lac, which is an iconic climbing wall in the suburbs of Paris.