Balazs Szabo

Balazs Szabo (1943–2022) was a Hungarian-born artist and author who lived in the United States from 1956 onward. He was best known as a fine artist influenced by the Viennese "fantastic realists" style. He derived his artistic inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Arik Brauer, and Ernst Fuchs among others. His portraits, large murals and surrealist works can be found in private and corporate collections in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Europe and the United States. Balazs Szabo's selected works are in the museums of Hawaii, New Jersey and North Carolina.

Szabo's first published art book, The Eye of the Muse (1985), won the 1987 USA Print Design Excellence Award, having been selected out of 40,000 contestants. His autobiography, Knock in the Night, was published by Refugee Press (2006) and was translated into Hungarian from the original English in 2008.