Endre Hevizi
Endre Hevizi (1923–2017) was a Hungarian artist who became a naturalised British citizen. After studying architecture in Budapest and Germany he fled to Denmark at the end of the Second World War, and lived for a while as a refugee, becoming a post-impressionist oil-painter, muralist, and self-taught ceramist. After marrying a Danish woman, he emigrated with her to England in 1946, and found work at Booths and Colcloughs, one of the Staffordshire Potteries. He moved to London after 1953 to work in the fields of architectural and interior design. For a while, Hevizi was involved in decorating churches and housing estates, under contract with the Ministry of Public Building and Works and the Co-operative Wholesale Society. He also collaborated with countryman Gyula Bajó, with whom he had worked at the pottery, on a mosaic mural in Ipswich and a tourist office in London. In his other work, he produced ceramic panels on religious themes, as well as stained-glass panels and mosaics for Debre Libanos, in the Ethiopian Empire; smaller individual pieces were put on display and won him several awards. Though semi-retired during the 1990s and 2000s to care for his ailing wife, in his late life he made a