The sculptor Lajos Cséri, who celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday this year, was born in Hajdúböszörmény but spent his childhood in Sárrétudvari. His masters at the Academy of Fine Arts were Béni Ferenczy and Pál Pátzay. The artist has been a participant of all notable national and international exhibitions. From 1959 to his retirement he maintained various significant positions at the Folk Art Institute and the Ministry of Culture. He has been remembered for his support and unconditional help.

Most surprisingly, Cséri's art is much better known abroad than in his motherland. His plaque of Dürer is exhibited in Nuremberg and the one of Van Gogh is in Amsterdam. Prominent private collectors in the United States as well as in Japan treasure his masterpieces. He taught technique of portraiture, small sculpture and medal art at the arts department of Cortland University, New York.

Though he designed and started the portrait of the poet Imre Nagy in 1956, in the year of the revolution, the master could only complete his precious work decades after as the splinters destroyed his studio and works. Finally, the representative size 5/4 portrait sculpture was unveiled in Sárrétudvari in 1997. 1996's events were the public erection of the bust of Ernő Szép and the Kossuth statues in Sárrétudvari and Zirc.

Tibor Geröly