After the war, Horvath started following his dream and attended
the Industrial Art University. When, in 1925, the Hungarian State Printing
Works for Securities was founded, Horvath became one of its first employees. While
there as an apprentice, he learned copper and steel engraving.
In 1936, after an art study trip to Italy, Horvath went to Belgium,
where he designed bank notes and instructed other engravers and designers. But
he was homesick, so after about a year and a half he returned to Hungary and
its state printers.
Horvath became an influential banknote designer and
engraver, which gave him the opportunity to train other engravers such as
Zoltan Nagy, Mihaly Fule and Ferenc Gall, who all became stamp engravers as
well.
Horvath himself only started engraving stamps in 1949. His
first stamp was a portrait of the poet Sandor Petofi. More portrait stamps
followed, of General Jozef Bem in 1950 and the Russian author Maksim Gorky in
1951.
Horvath’s last stamp was issued in 1954, the 50fi tomatoes
stamp in the fruit set. More were most likely to follow, but Horvath passed away
soon after, at the young age of 58. In 2004, he was honoured by Hungary with a special commemorative picture postcard. The picture side showed several of his engravings and on the address side was a preprinted stamp with Horvath's portrait.
You will find Endre Horvath's database HERE.