Yolanda Mohalyi
Yolanda Mohalyi (* 1909 in Kolozsvar , Hungary, today Cluj Napoca , Romania , † August 23, 1978 in São Paulo ) was a Hungarian - Brazilian painter and draftsman .
life and work
Mohalyi, née Lederer, studied painting in Nagybánya and then attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1927 to 1929 . In 1931 she went to Brazil and married the Hungarian chemist Gabriel Mohalyi. In São Paulo she taught painting and drawing, her students included Eleonore Koch , Giselda Leirner , Maria Bonomi and Alice Brill . In 1937 she joined "Grupo 7" with Victor Brecheret , Antonio Gomide and Elisabeth Nobiling .
After the Second World War she lived for some time in Rio Grande do Sul , where she taught German-Jewish refugees. In 1951 she studied there with Hansen-Bahia and made her first woodcuts . After a trip to Italy after 1957, she mainly worked with gouache and Chinese ink on paper. From 1960 to 1962 she taught art and design for the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation. She has had various solo exhibitions in Europe, Japan, the USA and in Latin America. In 1976 her first retrospective took place in the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM / SP). Her works are represented in the permanent collections of the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) in Washington, DC, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC / USP), the Casa Roberto Marinho in Rio de Janeiro and the Cleusa Garfinkel Collection in Brazil.
Awards
- 1958 Leirner Prize for Contemporary Art.
- 1963 best Brazilian painter at the 7th São Paulo Art Biennale
Web links
- Yolanda Mohalyi in the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Short biography
- Exhibition biography
- Interview contributions on Yolanda Mohalyi
- Tribute to Yolanda Mohalyi (Brazilian Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Retrospectiva Yolanda Mohalyi. Texto Paulo Mendes de Almeida. MAM, São Paulo 1976 (54 pages).
- ^ Instituto Itaú Cultural: 7ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo. In: org.br. Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural, accessed May 3, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohalyi, Yolanda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Léderer Mohalyi, Yolanda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian painter and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolozsvar , Hungary today Cluj Napoca , Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd August 1978 |
| Place of death | São Paulo |