RÓNA, Emy
(1904, Budapest - 1988, Budapest)



Graphic artist, painter, Merited Artist (1983). She was a student of Manó Vesztróczy at the School of Industrial Drawing. She started her creative career at the editorial office of the theatre magazine 'Színházi Élet' (Theatrical Life) in 1921. Her name became known as a result of her illustrations in Piroska Tábori's volume of tales, entitled 'Dugó Dani'. In 1925 she became a member of the Association of New Artists, in the exhibitions of which she regularly participated. From 1926 to 1928 she lived in Paris and worked for a satirical paper. Contemporaneously, she continued her education at the Colarossi School and at the Julian Academy. With her sister, Klára she organised a joint exhibition in the Galeria Zodiaque; here she presented her illustrations to the poems of Ady, Baudelaire and Verlaine.

From 1928 she lived in Budapest again working for newspapers, journals and publishers. In 1929 she won the prize of the illustration competition of the Athenaeum Publishing House. In the 1930 she was also active in poster design. From 1934 to 1936 she learnt fresco painting from Ferruccio Ferrazzi in Rome. She became a member of the Italian Art Society, at the exhibitions of which she was present on several occasions. In 1939 she won the graphic prize (Gold Diploma) at the World Expo in New York. A major area in her artistic activities was tale illustration: she illustrated approximately 400 books. Her works are kept in state-owned and private collections.



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