Dr. Ferenc Lantos is a Kossuth Award Winning artist and academic. He was born in Pécs on February 20, 1929 to György Lantos and Georgina Lukits. He married Mária Vecsey in 1953. They have 3 children, Gábor (1954), Éva (1954) and Tamás (1956). He died on December 20, 2014.Ferenc Lantos has created a lasting legacy both as an artist and a teacher. He  stubbornly led his own way, often facing society’s headwinds. He was always striving for new discoveries and experiments as a painter and a creator of public enamel friezes, enamel advertising signs, unique and printed graphics, and  a designer of ceramic ornaments. He created didactic methods and pioneered the way for artists of future generations.In 1959 he founded the department of visual arts at the Secondary School of Arts in Pécs, in 1968 Pécsi Műhely (Workshop of Pécs), a visual art workshop for Neo-Avant-Garde artists; in 1985 the school of art at Apáczai Központ; in 1992 the open school of arts at Apáczai Központ. Member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts since 2000. He had 50 solo and 150 collective exhibitions.

2023. Hungarian Heritage Prize

2010. Kossuth Prize

2009. Honorary Citizen of the City of Pécs

2007. Distinguished Artist of the Republic of Hungary

2004. Klára Herczeg Prize, senior degree

2002. MKISZ Lifetime Achievement Award

2000. Full membership of the Hungarian Academy of Arts

1998. Pro Civitate Pécs Award

1993. Munkácsy Award

1981. Baranya County Award for Public Culture

1978. Art Award of the City of Pécs

1965. Pécs and Baranya County Art Award

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022. Spectrum, Zsdrál Art Gallery, Balatonfüred

2022. Formulas and Adventures, Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs 

2020. Akin Worlds, Acb Gallery, Budapest

2021. Serigraphs, Zsdrál Art Gallery, Pécs

2019. Retrospection, Zsdrál Art Gallery, Pécs

2009. 80 év! Lantos Ferenc festőművész kiállítása, Pécsi Galéria, Pécs

2004. Lantos Ferenc 1948- 1970 között készült művei, Ernst Múzeum, Budapest

2000. Pécsi Galéria, Pécs

1999. md stúdió galéria, Mega Center, Budapest

1995. Nemzetközi Angol Központ, Pécs

1995. Parti Galéria, Pécs

1995. Pécsi Galéria, Pécs

1992. Hangzások és kontrasztok, Pécsi Kisgaléria, Pécs

1991. Művelődési Központ, Paks

1991. Magyar Kulturális Intézet (Erdős Jánossal, Gellér B. Istvánnal), Prága

1990. Művészetek Háza, Pécs

1989. Zeneművészeti Főiskola, Pécs

1988. Művészetek Háza, Pécs

1986. Vármúzeum, Szigetvár

1985. Francia Intézet, Budapest

1985. Tandem., Lahti

1984. Unitarian Church of Adelphi, Washington

1984. Nevelési Központ, Pécs

1983. Pécsi Galéria, Pécs

1981. Ifjúsági Ház, Salgótarján

1980. Művelődési Központ, Dombóvár

1980. Művelődési Központ, Komló

1980. Ifjúsági Ház, Salgótarján

1978. Jósa András Múzeum, Nyíregyháza

1977. A szerkezet költészete, Művelődési Központ, Nagykanizsa

1977. Józsefvárosi Kiállítóterem, Budapest

1977. Természet- látás- alkotás I-V., Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest

1976. A szerkezet költészete Városi kiállítóterem, Pécs

1972-1980. Természet- látás- alkotás, Debrecen, Tokaj, Veszprém, Szombathely, Miskolc, Tatabánya, Zalaegerszeg, Szeged

1970. Tokaj

1970. Tudomány és Technika Háza, Pécs

1967. Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem Bercsényi Kollégiuma

1966. József Attila Kultúraház, Pécs

1964. Janus Pannonius Múzeum, Pécs

1957. Pécs

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022.      Budapest, Kieselbach gallery, Between Peaks

2022. Pécs, Janus Pannonius Museum, Variations on a Colourful City

2019. Budapest, Vasarely Museum, Burned Geometry

2019. London, The Mayor Gallery, Pécs Workshop

2018. London, The Vinyl Factory, Revisiting the Hungarian Art of the 1960s and 1970s

2018–19. Burned Geometries, Enamel Art Experiments in Bonyhád (1968–1972), Vasarely Museum, Budapest

2018. Bookmarks - Revisiting Hungarian Art of the1960s and 1970s, The Vinyl Factory, Soho, London

2017. Separate Routes – Karl-Heinz Adler and Hungarian abstraction, Kassák Museum – Kiscelli Museum of BTM, Budapest

2010. Kaleidoscope Pécs2010, (Exhibiting artists: Barna Benedek, András Ernszt, Ferenc Ficzek, Tibor Gyenis, Ferenc Lantos, Barna Leitner, Péter Lengyel, Zoltán Makra, Gábor Miklya, András Pinczehelyi, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Péter Somody, Zsuzsa Tóth and Rita Varga)

2009. Ferenc Lantos is 80 years old: an Exhibition by Ferenc Lantos and his Students, Parti Gallery, Pécs – International Kepes Society Exhibition, Budapest

2007. 9th Exhibition of State Art Prize Winners, Olof Palme House, Budapest

2006. Masters, Association of Hungarian Artists and Craftsmen, Budapest

2004. Exhibition of the Pécs Workshop (exhibition of Ferenc Lantos and his students, Ferenc Ficzek, Károly Halász, Károly Kismányoky, Sándor Pinczehelyi and Kálmán Szíjártó), Ernst Museum, Budapest

1998. A selection from the private collection of László Vass, Vaszary Gallery, Kaposvár

1998. Five artists from Pécs, New York

1998. Masters and Disciples, G. Pryzmat, Cracow

1997. Oil/ Canvas, Palace of Art, Budapest

1997. Constructive Geometric Aspirations from Kassák to the Present, Baumax-R-X

1992. Na-Ne Group, Na-Ne Gallery, Budapest

1989. Symmetry and Asymmetry, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

1988. 1st International Drawing Triennial, Palace of Art, Budapest

1985. Nature, International Exhibition, Pécs Gallery, Pécs

1984. Five artists from Pécs, Dürer Room, Budapest

1984. Drawing '84, International Exhibition, Pécs Gallery, Pécs

1983. Landscape, International Exhibition, Pécs Gallery, Pécs

1982. 1st National Drawing Biennale, Salgótarján

1981–1982. Trends in 20th century Hungarian art, Stockholm; Göteborg; Malmö

1981. The Line, Pécs Gallery, Pécs

1980. Hungarian Constructivist Art 1920–1977, Copenhagen – Ålborg

1980. Drawing '80, Pécs Gallery, Pécs

1980. Tendencies III – 1970-1980, Geometric and Structural Aspirations in the Art of the 1970s, Óbuda Gallery, Budapest

1979. Hungarian Constructivist Art 1920-1977, Munich – Düsseldorf – Oslo

1979. Szürenon II 1969–1979, Kassák Lajos House of Culture, Budapest

1978. Hungarian Constructivist Art, s'Hertogenbosch; Utrecht; Emmen

1977. From Sketch to Work, University of Bradford

1976. Reproduction in Colour, Józsefváros Exhibition Hall, Budapest

1974. Hungarian Art '74, Kunstverein Oldenburg

1974. Semiotic Congress Exhibition, Tihany

1973. Texts, Chapel exhibition, Balatonboglár

1972. In memoriam Bartók, Déri Museum, Debrecen

1972. Pécs Workshop, House of Science and Technology, Pécs

1971. Recent Works, Palace of Art, Budapest

1970–1971. Building Enamel, Pécs and Pécsvárad

1970. Pécs Workshop, Miskolc Gallery, Miskolc

1970. New Geometric and Structural Aspirations, Salgótarján

1969. Szürenon I, Kassák Lajos House of Culture, Budapest

1968. Contemporary Hungarian Painting, Gallery, Mohács

1966. South Transdanubian Exhibition, G. Ilavonije, Osijek

1955. 6th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Palace of Art, Budapest

1952. Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs

ARTS IN PUBLIC COLLECTION
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest (Hungary)
Hungarian National Bank, Budapest (Hungary)
Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs (Hungary)
Jósa András Museum, Nyíregyháza (Hungary)
Kecskemét Picture Gallery, Kecskemét (Hungary)
Konsthall, Södertälje (Sweden)
Miskolc Gallery, Miskolc (Hungary)
M. Fredrikstad (Norway)
M. Narodowe, Poznan (Poland)
Paks Gallery, Paks (Hungary)
Tandem, Lahti (Finland)
Xantus János Museum, Győr (Hungary)