Margit Anna (1913 - 1991)
Margit was a Hungarian Jewish artist who moved to Budapest around age 17, studied under János Vaszary, and attended the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. She married a fellow artist, the painter Imre Ámos, with whom she had her first exhibition, and in 1937 they travelled to Paris together. There they met Chagall, both becoming heavily influenced by him. She later lost her husband in 1944 to the concentration camps, with much of her work expressing this grief and proximity to human suffering. In 1945 she co-founded the Hungarian European School movement but in the 1950s exhibitions were stifled under the Stalinist Hungarian government. Her work was classified as “forbidden” under the “Three T” rule imposed by the government. In the 1960s her output started to increase again and her first major show was in 1968. She continued to paint right up to the last few years of her life. Her work continues to sell at auctions, most recently in 2020.
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