Biography
From 1924, Anna Oelmacher studied at the School of Industrial Design and then at the Textile Department of the School of Applied Arts. She was a member of the painting school of OMIKE and attended the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 1930, she obtained the drawing teacher's qualification. Her college masters were István Groh, Gyula Kaesz, Adolf Fényes and Oszkár Glatz.
After college, she went on study trips to Austria and Venice. From 1934, she was a member of the Group of Socialist Artists. In 1936, she worked as Vilmos Aba Novák's assistant. Between 1937-1940 she worked as a textile designer and then as a paper factory designer. In 1946, she was a lecturer at the cultural policy department of the town hall, between 1947-1949 she was a lecturer at the Metropolitan Gallery, in 1950-1951 she was a lecturer at the New Hungarian Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, and then a staff member of the Hungarian National Gallery. From 1957 to 1970, she was the head of the graphics department.
She received numerous art awards from the sixties. Her artistic style was realistic and she avoided detail in her works. She strived for true-to-life wording, drew strong contours, thought in solid surfaces and a unified composition. Her subjects were ordinary people and the socialist way of thinking.
After 1945, she exhibited her artworks in several exhibitions and also engaged in art criticism, art writing and exhibition management. In Hungary, she organized exhibitions for artists such as Gyula Derkovits, István Dési Huber, Adolf Fényes or Bertalan Pór. But she also organized significant representative exhibitions abroad (for example in Florence, Rome, Paris, Vienna, Brussels, Moscow, Tallinn and China).
Her artworks are in collection of the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs, the Hungarian National Gallery and the Szombathely Art Gallery.
