line. The manifestations of the line are the traces that the pencil or the pen leave on a sheet of paper. A meaningful number of calligraphies originating from the period preceding the end of 1956 was exhibited in 1980 in the Budapest Club of Young Artists. (The curators of the exhibition were Dániel Bíró and Botond Kocsis.) In December 1957 Lajos Szabó's works were exhibited together with the works of Lajos Vajda, Endre Bálint, Attila Kotányi und Lyubomir Szabó in the Brussels Palais Des Beaux Arts. Lajos Szabó's calligraphies are preserved in a number of non-Hungarian museums: Musée Royal, Brussels; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam; Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Staatliche Kunstsammlung Stuttgart; Sammlung Haubrich im Museum Ludwig Köln; Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Duisburg; Stiftung Lehmbruch Museum-Zentrum Internationalen Skulptur, Duisburg; Kunstmuseum Bochum Kunstsammlung. The Berlin Calligraphy Collection in Berlin's Akademie der Künste has a total of 414 calligraphies by Lajos Szabó which were created before Szabó's emigration to the West. Exhibitions 1955 Budapest, studio exhibition of the first calligraphies 1956 Budapest, studio exhibition 1957 Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts: Peintres Hongrois, Lajos Vajda, Lajos Szabó, André Bálint, Attila Kotányi, Lyubomir Szabó 1959 Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts 1960 Brussels, Galerie Ptah: Louis Szabo 1960 Hamburg, Haus der Begegnung 1960 Dortmund, Fritz-Henßler-Haus 1960 Berlin, Kongresshalle 1961 Düsseldorf, Galerie Strake 1962 Hagen, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum: Louis Szabo, Zeichnerische Meditationen-Physiognomische Studien 1980 Budapest, Club of Young Artists: Lajos Szabó, An Introduction and a Selection from calligraphies created in the years 1954–1956 1994 Abbey of Pannonhalma, Hungary 1997 Budapest, Ernst Múzeum: Die spekulativen grafischen Bildschriften von Lajos Szabó (1902–1967) 1998 Düsseldorf, City Museum: Die spekulativen grafischen Bildschriften von Lajos Szabó (1902–1967) 2011 Eger, Hungary, Ars GEometrica Galéria 2011 Budapest, 2B Galéria, Presence-of Mind Calligraphies, 1957–1967 References 1902 births 1967 deaths Writers from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian philosophers Hungarian World War II forced labourers