Margit Kovács

Memorial plaque for Margit Kovacs

Plaque at the entrance to the Margit Kovács Collection in Szentendre .

Margit Kovács (born November 30, 1902 in Győr , † June 4, 1977 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian sculptor and ceramic artist .

Life

Margit Kovács was born on November 30, 1902 in Győr. She actually wanted to become a graphic artist , but developed an interest in ceramics in the early 1920s . From 1926 to 1928 she studied with the ceramic artist Hertha Bücher in Vienna . She studied in the years 1928 and 1929 when Karl Killer at the Munich art school dealing with clay . In 1932 Kovács studied in Copenhagen and in 1933 learned how to model figures with fireclay at the Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres .

Kovács received her first public contract in 1928. She continued to work during World War II and under the communist regime. The latter honored her as an outstanding artist in 1959. Kovács made sculptures, vessels, plates, plaques and murals from tiles. She devoted herself to motifs from rural and family life as well as from the Bible . One of her most important religious works is the portal of the Szent Imre Templon in Győr, which Kovács made in 1939 and 1940. Many of her public works of art have been preserved in Budapest and other Hungarian cities. In 1972 she donated most of her work to the museum administration in Szentendre , where the Margit Kovács collection opened the following year . Kovács died on June 4, 1977 in Budapest. She is buried in the Farkasréti temető cemetery there.

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  Pottery at an old post office in Budapest.

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  Plaque on Vármegye Street, Budapest.

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  Pottery at the Bécsi Gate of Buda Castle .

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  Mary with Child in the Castle District, Budapest.

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  Part of the roof of the Margit Kovacs Museum in Szentendre

literature

• Lea Schenk: Margit Kovács Photo Album , Budapest 2007, ISBN 978-963-00-6484-2 .
• Ilona Pataky-Brestyánszky: Margit Kovács , Budapest 1976, ISBN 963 13 2628 4 .

Web links

Commons : Margit Kovács  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Margit Kovács Collection.
• Short biography on hung-art.hu.
• Description of the research project Pottery, Politics and Identity: Three Hungarian Ceramicists and the Central European Diaspora .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography on hung-art.hu, accessed on May 9, 2016.
2. ^ Description of a research project on three ceramic artists in Hungary, accessed on May 9, 2016.