Jozsef Fürst was born in Budapest in 1947. After finishing the Academy of Applied Arts, he got into the European art circulation.

He won the third prize in Potsdam Biennale in 1976. His works got abroad by the organization of ARTEX. He has had exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, England, Holland, Germany, Austria, France and in Italy, and he participated in the famous Sotheby's and Christine's Auction scale and in the Dorotheum.

Jozsef quotes the 16^th century mannerists. His ability in drawing is excellent, use of brush is brilliant, and the surface of his pictures on the painted canvas is ice smooth due to his brushwork. Although his works colorful, they are calmly conciliatory and sedative. He is a representative of the so called magic realism. He marvelously suits present message to classical ages with his ordinary devices and mix it with worldly things, mainly with drawbacks of life: the topics of old age, death, war, destruction and abandon. His works are not homogeneous as each has a special point of view. He did not choose an existent school to be part of but created a new one. He recognised happiness in Budapest Art House, where his workmanship developed to such a level, which amplified the spectrum of Hungarian art. He became a member of Saint-Lucas Alliance, and he formed his own artistic language.

His portraits show deep layers of characters by a kind of intimate sight, his still lifes represent unique and general at the same time by fantastic richness in details quoting classical ages. His landscapes drive us to the hardly apprehensible mystic world.