Magda Zemplényi

1899 - 1965

Biography

She developed her knowledge in a self-taught manner. She continued her art studies in the mid-1930s at Vilmos Aba-Novák's free school. It was here that she met her future (second) husband, the painter Gyula Marosán. From the end of the thirties, she was featured in the exhibitions of the Ernst Museum. She exhibited regularly with the KUT artist group and participated in exhibitions organized by the OMIKE Art Action.

 

In the 1940s, after 1945, she joined the group of artists known as the European School. With a foreword by Imre Pán and Endre Bálint, her collective exhibition was organized in 1945 in the downtown organization of the MKP. In 1946 and 1947, she participated in the first and second group exhibition of the Group of Abstract Artists, in 1947 in the exhibition of the Gallery for 4 World Landscapes and the Alkotás Művészház. In 1950, she divorced Marosán, who later went abroad, and then in the 1950s she was pushed out of public artistic life and created in retirement. In the early 1960s, she also painted pictures in a traditional style.

 

Her works can be found in the Modern Hungarian Gallery in Pécs and in domestic private collections. Among the Hungarian artists, she was most influenced by Lajos Vajda, and among the foreigners, Edvard Munch and Picasso.

Related artworks

Woman in Green Hat with Cat (1939)

Magda Zemplényi

2,280,000 HUF

Immoral woman (Around 1947)

Magda Zemplényi

300,000 HUF