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.

Early life

Szekely 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. The Dame du Lac is considered to have played an instrumental role in the development of

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by David Belle, made famous by early montages such as ''Speed Air Man'' (1997). 1923 births 2001 deaths Hungarian sculptors 20th-century Hungarian sculptors {{Hungary-artist-stub