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
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
in July 1915, the daughter of psychologist
Géza Révész 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
Maurits Cornelis Escher (; ; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithography, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were Mathematics and art, inspired by mathematics.
Despite wide popular int ...
at the Utrecht Society Kunstliefde.
For the retreat ''l'Elefante Felice'' of
Prince Bernhard
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (later Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; 29 June 1911 – 1 December 2004) was Prince of the Netherlands from 6 September 1948 to 30 April 1980 as the husband of Queen Juliana. They had four daughters to ...
in
Porto Ercole
Porto Ercole () is an Italian town located in the municipality of Monte Argentario, in the Province of Grosseto, Tuscany. It is one of the two major towns that form the township, along with Porto Santo Stefano. Its name means "Port Hercules". It i ...
, Italy, in 1960 Révész 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
Malcesine is a ''comune'' (municipality) on the eastern shore of Lake Garda in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about northwest of Venice and about northwest of Verona. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The ...
at the age of 102.
Capriolus: Révész, Judith
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See also
* List of Dutch ceramists
This is a list of Dutch ceramists who were born and/or were primarily active in the Netherlands.
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* Cris Agterberg (1883–1948)
* Aalmis (1674–1755)
* Karel Appel (1921–2006)
* Govert-Marinus Augustijn (1871–1963)
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References
External links
*
Révész, Judith
at capriolus.nl
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1915 births
2018 deaths
Dutch women centenarians
Dutch ceramists
Dutch women ceramists
Hungarian women centenarians
Hungarian ceramists
Hungarian women ceramists
Artists from Budapest
Hungarian emigrants to the Netherlands