Biography

Graphic artist Margit Artner was born on January 16th of 1954 in Budapest. Between 1968 and 1972, she attended the Secondary School for Fine and Applied Arts. She started her career creating illustrations for books and newspapers. Since 1974 she has been mostly focusing on etchings, which makes up the largest part of her work. Her first individual exhibition took place at the Csepel Gallery in 1982, and many others followed it in Hungary, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Italy and Cyprus.

Her depictions float on the edge of dream and reality. Her meticulously detailed etchings, and the gentle colors she uses to color her graphics in some cases, mirror a calm restraint. In her quiet, meditative, surreal and metaphysical images, interiors, architectural motives and landscapes are combined. Her fragmentary and deeply symbolic arcades, gates, and fences are the pathway to another world. In her natural surroundings, we often see symbols referring to the transcience of time, the cycle of life, and the change between day and night.

The musicians in the garden create an imaginary harmony. The unassuming charm of Renaissance and the accuracy of Dutch paintings have built themselves into her art as a source of inspiration as well as friendly figures of fairy tales, or real and imaginary craftsmen of the middle ages. Her world of fairy tales, dreams, order, and tranquility is often mixed with a certain merry playfulness.