Lacza Márta

Márta Lacza is a Hungarian artist, born in Budapest in 1946. She is a painter, etcher and illustrator. In 1967 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and then studied from 1970 to 1974 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts under Simon Sarkantyú and Károly Raszler. Her oeuvre consists of oil paintings, drawings in pencil or chalk, etchings and illustrations for books. Her work can best be described as combining mood, creativity with personal vision. She has had several solo exhibitions at home and abroad, and her works have been exhibited in London, Hamburg, Eindhoven, Ghent, Copenhagen and Athens. In her country, Hungary, she received a Derkovits grant (1980-1983) and won the Munkácsy prize in 1983. Márta Lacza participated in the first international graphic artists' colony Frans Masereel National Center for Graphics in Belgium and was asked back fourteen years in a row . Her autobiography, Élet és Művészet (Life and Art), was published in Budapest in 2007. (BT)