Biography
His father, Dr. Marcell Róth, was a surgeon, and his mother, Erzsébet Lóránt, was a painter. From the second half of the 1930s, the Roth family first lived in Arad - where the head of the family worked in a private sanatorium - and then settled in Budapest in 1942. Both parents lost their lives in the Holocaust. Between 1942-46, András attended various free schools, his teachers were Bernáth Aurél, Stefánia Mándy, and Tibor Vilt. Between 1946-51, he was a student of the painting department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, under his teachers: Róbert Berény, Géza Fónyi. András changed his family name to "rác" at the end of his college years. it was already featured in the exhibition organized by the graduates' works, and under this name - often written as racz - the artist became known at home and abroad.
While still in college, he developed the method of placing mosaics in sand in order to increase creative freedom. Together with György Hegyi, he created many wall mosaics. Using a specific technical process called "mosaic relief", he creates montage-like wall pictures and blackboard pictures from glass mosaics embedded in synthetic resin, marble blocks and the application of found objects. He freely associates styling tools and materials for expression. At the beginning, he exhibited oil paintings, and after 1967, he exhibited the technique he had experimented with, combined with mosaic or self-treated synthetic resin paintings with an enamel effect. His creations range between figurative and non-figurative, darker drama and brighter colors, and from the abstract through the symbolic to the mythological or the representational character adapted to the client's program. Their common feature is the musicality expressed in color and form rhythms. Since 1985, he has been a member of the Szentendre Old Artists Colony. He also makes mosaics for private houses.
