It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of the painter Anna Mark.
The artist living and working in Paris was 97 years old. Anna Mark (Anna Márkus) was born in Budapest in 1928, worked at the Budapest Puppet Theatre between 1950 and 1956, and during these years she cultivated friendly relations with the creators of the European School, such as Lili Ország, Endré Bálint, and Júlia Vajda. She left Hungary in 1956, lived in Germany for the first few years, and then in Paris from 1959. In the 60s, she worked as a member of the Group Carré de Paris artist group. Since 1964, her works have been exhibited in numerous private galleries, contemporary art centers, and museums. Mark developed a visual language inspired by a wide variety of sources, so each of her works is a complex fusion of materials, gestures, and symbols.
Anna Mark’s work was presented in a retrospective exhibition titled Shadows and Signs in 2022 at the Ferenczy Museum. Her family accompanied her to the opening in Szentendre, and she signed the art catalogue published for the exhibition at the event.
