Biography
She was born as Júlia Richter in 1913 in Trenčín, the third child of Jenő Richter, a grain merchant, and Olga Lax (1884–1955). They moved to Bratislava in 1922. After her father's death in 1926, the family found themselves in a difficult financial situation. In 1935, she moved to Budapest and studied at the School of Applied Arts and the Vilmos Aba-Novák Free School until 1939. From 1946 to 1948, she was a member of the European School. She lived in Paris between 1961 and 1963. In 1935, she met her future first husband, Lajos Vajda, when she moved to Hungary from Bratislava. At that time, she created gently lyrical pastels that emphasized structure, and her works were primarily self-portraits and still lifes.
From 1946, she exhibited with her second husband, József Jakovits, at exhibitions of the European School and the Hungarian group of Abstract Artists. Her works were surrealistic enigmatic biblical paraphrases and slender, dancing chromosome forms. In 1948, she painted Szentendre, and that year she also organized her first solo exhibition. After the year of the turning point, she was pushed out of the artistic public and fewer works were produced. In 1956–57, she worked in Lund, Sweden, where she created drawings reminiscent of plant hair tubes and capillaries, and delicate curved forms, as well as rhythmic lyrical abstract images. In the early 1960s, she created delicate internal maps and musically-structured chalk drawings, and then in the late 1960s, she increasingly dealt with the harmony and rhythm of pure color planes in the so-called In his red paintings, and later in his stepped, coffin-shaped and circular works, he depicted the trap situations of perspective and the interaction of the cold and warm color scale.