Magda Frank Fischer (20 July 1914 – 23 June 2010) was a Hungarian-Argentine sculptor.

Biography

She was born in Kolozsvár, Transylvania, which at that time belonged to Hungary but in 1918, was incorporated into Romania. Because of Nazi persecution, she left Hungary to settle in Switzerland. Years later, she moved to Paris to study at the

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. In 1950, she arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina to visit her brother, her only living family member. Here, she was appointed professor at the Artes Visuales de Buenos Aires and exhibited at the Galería Pizarro. She participated in the Premio Palanza Buenos Aires. She received the Benito Quinquela Martín award at the

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, and was honored by the

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. Her works are part of the collections at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Paris, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. Frank resettled in Argentina in 1995 and built the Magda Frank House Museum in the Saavedra

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at Vedia 3546. She died in 2010 in Buenos Aires.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Frank, Magda 1914 births 2010 deaths 20th-century Hungarian sculptors 21st-century Hungarian sculptors 20th-century Hungarian women artists 21st-century Hungarian women artists Artists from Cluj-Napoca Hungarian emigrants to Argentina Naturalized citizens of Argentina Hungarian Jews Hungarian women sculptors Hungarian expatriates in Argentina Argentine people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Jewish women sculptors Argentine women sculptors