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Augusta’s Morris Museum of Art notes death of artist Janos Enyedi

AUGUSTA, GA.- The board and staff of Augusta’s Morris Museum of Art mourn the loss of artist Janos Enyedi, who died on Monday, October 6, 2011, at age 63. Enyedi was an internationally renowned artist whose paintings, sculpture, drawings, and photographs celebrated his fascination with the industrial landscapes and ports of the United States and Europe. “Janos was an irresistible force, a man on a mission who sought to capture a vision of the American industrial landscape that memorialized its majesty as well as its fall. It would be too facile to characterize it as a kind of memento mori, a recognition of pre-eminence past. The fact that he achieved this vision with great style and grace is a testament to him as an artist. As a person, well, there was hardly anyone who ever lived life with more brio than he. Janos often characterized himself as ‘the Mad Hungarian,’ which sometimes led others to conclude, i