Magda Frank
Magda Frank Fischer | |
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Born | Kolozsvár, Transylvania | July 20, 1914
Died | June 23, 2010 Buenos Aires, Argentina | (aged 95)
Nationality | Hungarian-Argentine |
Education | Académie Julian |
Known for | Sculpture |
Magda Frank Fischer (July 20, 1914 – June 23, 2010) was a Hungarian-Argentine sculptor.
Biography[]
She was born in Kolozsvár, Transylvania, which at that time belonged to Hungary but in 1918, was incorporated into Romania. Because of Nazi persecution, she left Hungary to settle in Switzerland. Years later, she moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian. In 1950, she arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina to visit her brother, her only living family member. Here, she was appointed professor at the Artes Visuales de Buenos Aires and exhibited at the Galería Pizarro.[1] She participated in the Premio Palanza Buenos Aires. She received the Benito Quinquela Martín award at the Eduardo Sívori Museum, and was honored by the Argentine Senate. Her works are part of the collections at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Paris, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. Frank resettled in Argentina in 1995 and built the Magda Frank House Museum in the Saavedra barrio at Vedia 3546. She died in 2010 in Buenos Aires.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Artistas húngaros" (in Spanish). Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires - Dirección General de Relaciones Institucionales. Secretaría General. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "Murió la reconocida escultora Magda Frank". Urgente24 (in Spanish). 24 June 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- 1914 births
- 2010 deaths
- 20th-century Hungarian sculptors
- 21st-century Hungarian sculptors
- 20th-century Hungarian women artists
- 21st-century Hungarian women artists
- Artists from Cluj-Napoca
- Hungarian emigrants to Argentina
- Naturalized citizens of Argentina
- Hungarian Jews
- Hungarian women sculptors
- Hungarian expatriates in Argentina
- Argentine people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
- Jewish women sculptors
- Argentine women sculptors