Margit Sebők
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Margit Sebők (December 9, 1939 – October 18, 2000) was a Hungarian painter and educator. She was born in
Karcag Karcag () is a large town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. Geography Karcag covers an area of and has a population of 20,632 people (2011). Transport Karcag has its own railway station, bu ...
, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county,
Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
. She spent her childhood in Berekfürdő. She finished high school in Karcag then in 1961 received a degree from the Eszterházy College in
Eger Eger ( , ; ; also known by other #Names and etymology, alternative names) is the county seat of Heves County, and the second largest city in Northern Hungary (after Miskolc). A city with county rights, Eger is best known for Castle of Eger, its ...
, as a teacher of arts and geography. She worked as a teacher until 1988, then she was employed by the :hu:Vasarely Museum She was married to painter and teacher József Pogány (1938–2001), and had a son, sculptor Gábor Benő Pogány. A gallery in Berekfürdő was named after her in 2004.


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1939 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Hungarian educators 20th-century Hungarian painters People from Karcag 20th-century Hungarian women painters {{Hungary-painter-stub