Biography
Painter Ritta Boemm was born in 1868 in Levoča, in the Upper Hungarian Highlands. Her father was the painter Tivadar Boemm, who was a drawing teacher in Levoča in the second half of the 1800s. Her mother was Mária Modrach. Her sisters were Klára and Lucza. After studying in Dresden and Paris, she settled in Budapest in 1898. She also studied at the music academy in Dresden. In 1902, she married the private tutor Kálmán Fehér in Budapest. She frequently participated in the Art Hall exhibitions. She participated in the spring exhibition of the National Salon in 1900 with six paintings. At the exhibition of the Fine Arts Society in 1909-10, her painting Little Svabhegy received the Eszterházy Prize. Several of her paintings were on display in the National Salon almost every year until 1940. She painted mainly interiors with characteristically broken-up color spots, mostly watercolors. Her favorite subjects were dolls in colorful clothes and still lifes. She also painted altarpieces, which can be found in Csákvár and Ózd. In 1901, Ritta Boemm played the piano at the ceremony held to hand over the Csákvár altarpiece. In 1909, she had a collective exhibition. Several of her paintings can be found in the Hungarian National Gallery. Her grave is in the Farkasréti cemetery.
