Anna MARK

Anna Mark born in 1928 in Budapest. She studied painting at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest between 1946 and 1950. From 1950 until 1955 she worked as a set designer for the Budapest Puppet Theater. During this time, she maintained friendly relations with the artists of the European School, such as Lili Ország, Endre Bálint and Júlia Vajda. After she left Hungary in 1956, she lived in Saarbrücken, Germany, and moved to Paris in 1959, where she has been living and working since then. In her early works, surrealist imagery was the basis of her analysis of the nature and materiality of physical objects. Her interest in architecture manifests itself in her quest for balance between strict construction and emotional content; her oeuvre consists of reliefs, gouaches, ink drawings, aquatints and prints.