Biography
Anna Bartoniek studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1914 until 1922, interrupted by the World War. Her masters were Oszkár Glatz, István Réti and János Vaszary. In 1918, she visited the Budapest Free School of Fine Arts as well. In 1924, she had taken study trips to Rome, Venice and Vienna. She was a founding member of of the New Group of the Hungarian Women Artists in 1931, and then of the most important women's grouping of modernism in Hungary, the New Eight. In the mid-thirties, she switched from the genre of figurative oil painting to woodcuts, which genre became almost exclusive in her later art.
