Erzsébet Schaár
Erzsébet Schaár | |
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Born | Budapest, Hungary | July 29, 1905
Died | August 29, 1975 Budapest, Hungary | (aged 70)
Nationality | Hungarian |
Known for | Sculpture |
Spouse(s) | hu:Tibor Vilt |
Erzsébet Schaár (29 July 1905, in Budafok – 29 August 1975, in Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor.
Life[]
She studied with Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl. In 1932, she was awarded the Young Artist Award for the . In 1935, she married , a sculptor.
Her first solo exhibition was in 1932 in Budapest. In the 40s, she made small wooden reliefs, similar to the Giacometti statues, At the same time, she also patterned several reclining figures. Architectural elements were also employed; since then it has used lightweight styrene, which has created life-size spaces, such as knife-cut, easy-to-saw materials.
In 1970, she had a retrospective exhibition at the Műcsarnok, and two years later she was exhibited in Antwerp and Geneva. In 1977, the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Dusseldorf held a retrospective.
There are several public statues exhibited in Budapest, Kecskemét, Miskolc, Pécs, Tihany and elsewhere. Much of his estate is in in Székesfehérvár.
Further reading[]
- Németh, Lajos. "Schaár, Erzsébet." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed February 16, 2012; subscription required).
External links[]
- Media related to Erzsébet Schaár at Wikimedia Commons
- Entry for Erzsébet Schaár on the Union List of Artist Names
- 1905 births
- 1975 deaths
- Hungarian women sculptors
- Artists from Budapest
- Hungarian women artists
- 20th-century Hungarian sculptors
- 20th-century Hungarian women artists
- Hungarian artist stubs
- European sculptor stubs