Anton Prinner, born Prinner Anna (Budapest, 1902 – Paris, 1983) studied at theFine Arts School in Budapest.  After arriving in Paris in 1927, she created a male persona and maintained an androgynous identity for the rest of her life.  Mondrian's neo-plasticism and Russian constructivism influenced her early work. In Paris she studied at the free school of the Grande Chaumière, became friends with Arpad Szenes, and became aprominent figure in the  constructivist movement. In 1932 she studied engraving at the studio of British surrealist painter and printmaker Stanley William Hayter and invented a new process called papyrogravure. From 1937 Prinner turned to figurative sculpture, notably with the plaster, Double Personality. Her interest in the occult, mysticism, and transmutation informed her work. Between 1947 and 1949 she illustrated sixty-six tablets  of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and later illustrated a work on Tarot. Prinner was well-connected with the avant-garde in Paris. Jeanne Bucher and Maria Elena Vieira da Silva frequented her studio in Montparnasse at rue Belloni (now rue d'Arsonval). In the early 1940s she met and befriended Picasso, who introduced her as "the small man who makes large statues." Other friends included André Breton, Jacques Prévert, Pierre Loeb, and Jean Paulhan. From 1950 until 1965, she collaborated with the Atelier du Tapis Vert.
She returned to Paris in 1965 and exhibited at the Galerie Yvonne Lambert, and in 1968 at the Galerie Arnad Zerbib. In 1979 the Anton Prinner Friends' Association was created. A retrospective was held at the Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Sables d'Olonne in 2006.

1930 – Exhibition at the Galerie Pierre Loeb

1942 – Exhibition at Jeanne Bucher

1945 – Exhibition at Gallery Pierre

1945 – Exhibition at Galerie Drouin

1948 – Second show at the Pierre Gallery

1962 – Exhibition at the Gallery Katia Granoff

1965 – Exhibition of his work at Galerie constructivist Yvon Lambert

Collections:

V&A London

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1036088/metamorphose-print-prinner-anton/

Museu Colecao Berardo

http://en.museuberardo.pt/collection/artists/

Stedelijk Museum

http://www.stedelijk.nl/kunstwerk/16187-beeld-van-anton-prinner

Dallas Museum of Art

https://collections.dma.org/artwork/5032294