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Márta Lacza

Hungarian graphic artist and painter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Márta Lacza (born December 2, 1946) is a Hungarian graphic artist and portrait painter.

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Early life and education

She was born in the Csepel district of Budapest in 1946.[1] In 1967, she graduated from Fine Arts High School and then studied from 1970 to 1974 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts under Simon Sarkantyú[2] and Károly Raszler.[3] Since then, she has had numerous solo exhibitions at home and abroad, and her works have been shown in London, Hamburg, Eindhoven, Ghent, Copenhagen and Athens.[3][4]

Scholarship

She was awarded a Derkovits Scholarship (1980–1983)[3] and won the Munkácsy Prize in 1983.[2][3][5] A 40-minute television programme about her, titled A Tv galériája. Lacza Márta grafikusművész (The TV gallery. Lacza Martha graphic artist), was broadcast on Magyar Televízió, the Hungarian national public broadcaster, in March 1982.[6]

She took part in the first "Frans Masereel Rijkscentrum voor graphite" international graphic artists' colony in Belgium, and was called back every year for fourteen years.[1] She also participated in the work of Atelier Nord in Norway.[1]

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Career

She is known for her oil paintings, drawings in pencil or chalk,[7] etchings and illustrations for many books.[1] Her work is described as combining mood, thought creativity and personal vision with "unmatched skill and preparedness coupled with outstanding craftmanship".[8] Her paintings show "mysterious, sometimes almost bizarre figures" that "provoke emotion from observers."[8]

Her illustrations have been published in a number of books, including the Hungarian translation of the Anne of Green Gables series of children's books by Lucy Maud Montgomery translated by Katalin Szűr-Szabó,[9] and books of Hungarian folktales such as The Silver King's Flute by Zsigmond Móricz,[10] and The Tree That Reached the Sky.[citation needed] She and her husband also illustrated academic volumes such as Hajdú-Bihar megye 10-11. századi sírleletei,[11] and The late neolithic of the Tisza region (1987).[12]

Her autobiography, Élet és Művészet (Life and Art), was published in Budapest in 2007.[13]

She and her husband, artist Dékány Ágoston (died 28 August 2015[14]), lived and worked in the Csepel district of Budapest.[8]

Solo exhibitions

Her solo exhibitions include:[2]

  • 1975 Joseph Municipal Culture House, Budapest
  • 1976 Purple School, New Palace, Budapest
  • 1978 Studio Gallery, Budapest
  • 1979 Pesterzsébeti Museum, Budapest
  • 1980 Chili Gallery, Budapest
  • 1981 Theatre Gallery, Budapest
  • 1982 TV Gallery, Budapest; Culture House, Siófok;[4] Turnhout, Belgium
  • 1983 Bastion Gallery, Budapest; Fórum Szálloda; Galerie Mensch, Hamburg
  • 1984 Miskolc; Fórum Galéria, Budapest
  • 1985 Turnhout, Belgium
  • 1990 Elizabeth City Gallery, Budapest
  • 1995 Color Games
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Works

Works acquired by the Janus Pannonius Múzeum:

  • Négy évszak, pen/ink on paper, 275 × 402 mm[15]
  • Tópart, 1978, lithography on paper, 475 × 570 mm[15]
  • Belső udvar, pencil on paper, 312 × 440 mm[15]
  • Arcuk egy-egy kis külváros, 1980, p. szín. cer, 370 × 545 mm[15]
  • Információ, pencil on paper, 370 × 550 mm[16]
  • Szólíthatom Jánosnak? , pencil on paper, 395 × 550 mm[16]
  • Pára, pencil on paper, 385 × 545 mm[16]
  • Félsziget, 1984, pencil on paper, 340 × 510 mm[16]
  • Túlsó part, pencil on paper, 280 × 395 mm[16]

Other works include:

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