Judith Révész
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Judith Magdolna Laqueur-Révész (15 July 1915 – 17 April 2018) was a Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor.


Life and work

Judith Magdolna Révész was born in Budapest in July 1915, the daughter of psychologist
Géza Révész Géza Révész (31 August 1902 – 22 January 1977) was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence between 1957 and 1960. During the Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Second World War he fought in the Red ...
and art historian Magdolna Révész-Alexander. In 1920, she moved with her parents from Hungary to the Netherlands. She rejected the Dutch art education, and received a private education (1934-1937) at the School of Applied Arts in Budapest by sculptor Mark Vedres. In 1938, she became a freelance potter in Amsterdam. She was in close contact with Bert Nienhuis and
Luigi de Lerma Eugenio Luigi Umberto Giovanni Maria de Lerma (Reggio Emilia; 30 July 1907 – 20 January 1965 in Utrecht) was an Italian painter and ceramist, who since 1934 worked in the Netherlands. Life and work The Lerma majolica techniques at the Institut ...
. She made especially earthenware utensils and ceramics small plastic, often inspired by Hungarian folk art. She made portraits, which were cast in bronze. She married a German lawyer, Henric Jochem Willem Ernst (Hein) Laqueur (1914-1990) in 1941. The couple had a son and a daughter. In 1957, the family moved to The Hague. She exhibited regularly since 1938, including in 1959/1960 in a duo exhibition with Maurits Cornelis Escher at the Utrecht Society Kunstliefde. The retreat l'Elefante Felice of Prince Bernhard in Porto Ercole Révész in 1960 made a tile picture of an elephant. After the demolition of the villa in 2012, the work returned to the Netherlands and was donated to the Dutch Tile Museum. Révész died in April 2018 in Malcesine at the age of 102.Capriolus: Révész, Judith
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See also

* List of Dutch ceramists


References


External links

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Révész, Judith
at capriolus.nl {{DEFAULTSORT:Revesz, Judith 1915 births 2018 deaths Dutch centenarians Dutch ceramists Dutch women ceramists Hungarian centenarians Hungarian ceramists Hungarian women ceramists Artists from Budapest Women centenarians Hungarian emigrants to the Netherlands