Anna Czillich

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Anna Czillich (born May 25, 1899 in Eger , † August 18, 1923 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian painter who lived in Sasad , a district in the 11th district in Budapest.

Self portrait

She began her training in the summer of 1917 with István Réti in the artists ' settlement in Nagybánya . She then attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 1917 to 1920, where she was a student of Oszkár Glatz and Dezső Pilch .

Her powerful paintings and drawings were only published at exhibitions after her death. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 30 .

In 1924 Anna Czillich's estate was shown in an exhibition in the Alkotás Művészház ("Artists' House Alkotás").

The diary, published in 1925, caused a sensation, as she describes her fight against the disease with great honesty.

literature

  • Seregélyi, György: Magyar festők és grafikusok adattára . Szeged 1988, ISBN 963-500-817-1 .
  • Aradi, Nóra (Ed.): Művészeti Lexicon . Akadémiai Kiadó, Szeged 1983, ISBN 963-05-2360-4 .
  • Új Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon . Magyar Könyvklub, 2001, ISBN 963-547-414-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register from the city of Eger, serial number 364/1899.
personal data
SURNAME Czillich, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Eger
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1923
Place of death Budapest