Vita

Actually she wanted to write. At home in Hungary (she was born in Dombóvár) she had been writing creative short stories from early on. Trained as an assistant pharmacist, she had also studied psychology and literature aesthetics. Then in 1975 Germany became her home of choice due to marriage, and the budding author was suddenly condemned to speechlessness. When she by chance discovered clay as a modelling element, it was like a liberation. She has an innate feeling for the expression and features of her sculptures. Her mystic-symbolic expressions in strong light-and-shadow contrasts are comparable to those of Barlach and Giacometti. Imre Varga, the great Hungarian sculptor, only needed to teach her the technical aspects of sculpting at the Summer Academy in Salzburg. “I can only make what is in myself”, says the artist about her realistic figures. Above all her sculptures of women are loaded with emotion. Her abstract works possess a rhythmic dynamism. One can feel her enthusiasm for creating. “The form is already in this block of clay; bringing it out fascinates me”, says Judit Hagner. R.C.

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