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Biography
Elisabeth Schaár was born in 1908 in Budafok. In 1924 she was admitted to the Hungarian College of Fine Arts, where she learnt at the class of Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl until 1926. In this year she took study trip to Paris, than she spent short time in Munich and in Vienna. From 1926 she had been regularly exhibiting artist. In 1932 she organized her first single exhibition in Budapest. In the same year she won the young artist’s Szinyei award.
She was elected member of the Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists Association. She got Munkácsy award in 1962. In 1972 she became merited artist. In 1970 the Elisabeth Schaár life-works exhibition was kept in the Art Gallery in Budapest. In 1972 she exhibited in Antwerpen and also in Geneva. The Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg organized a memorial exhibition for her in 1977.
Several of her statues stand in Hungary in different cities: Budapest, Kecskemét, Miskolc, Pécs, Tihany and in elsewhere. A significant part of her works can be found at the Stephen King Museum in Székesfehérvár.
| Year | Biography |
|---|---|
| 1908 | She was born in Budafok |
| 1924 | School of Industrial Design |
| 1924–1926 | Hungarian College of Fine Arts |
| 1926-ban | she went to study to Paris, then she was staying in Munich and Vienna |
| Her teachers: Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl | |
| Awards | |
| 1972 | Merited Artist |
| 1962 | II. National Statuette Biennial, I. prize, Pécs |
| Munkácsy-award | |
| 1932 | Young Artist's Szinyei-award |
| Single exhibitions | |
| 2005 | In memoriam of Elisabeth Schaár and Tibor Vilt, South-Buda, Culture and Leisure Center, Budapest |
| 2003 | Memorial exhibition, N&n Gallery, Budapest |
| 1999 | In memoriam "Leányka" street 18, (with Tibor Vilt), Budatétény Gallery, Budapest |
| 1988 | Memorial exhibition, (with Tibor Vilt), Budatétény Gallery, Budapest |
| 1986 | Memorial exhibition, János Asztalos Cultural Center, Rétság |
| 1985 | Galerija Zacheta (with Tibor Vilt), Warsaw |
| 1983 | Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest |
| 1982 | XL. Venice Biennale, Venice |
| 1981 | V. International Statuette Biennial, Art Gallery, Budapest |
| 1977 | Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg |
| Elisabeth Schaár and Tibor Vilt exhibition, Saint Stephen King Museum, Székesfehérvár | |
| 1974 | Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest |
| Kunstmuseum, Luzern | |
| Csók Gallery, Székesfehérvár | |
| 1972 | Cultural Center, Gent, Belgium |
| Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerpen, Belgium | |
| 1970 | Art Gallery, Budapest |
| 1966 | Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna |
| Saint Stephen King Museum, Székesfehérvár | |
| 1960 | The Art Gallery Exhibition Hall, Budapest |
| 1932 | Tamás Gallery, (with Józsa Járitz), Budapest |
| 1930 | Budapest |
| Group exhibition | |
| 1993 | Variations for the pop art-chapters from the Hungarian art 1950–1990, Ernst Museum, Budapest. |
| 1985 | Contemporary Visual Art in Hungary, Eighteen Artist, The Third Eye Centre, Glasgow (UK) |
| 1984 | Glass Sculptures, Ernst Museum, Budapest |
| 1983 | Contemporary Hungarian art, Warsaw; Krakow; Wroclaw; Bytom |
| Tendencias de la Escultura Hungara Contemporanea, Salas de la Direction General | |
| Internationales de Bellas Artes et Archivos, Madrid; Gulbenkian Alapítvány, Lisszabon | |
| 1982 | Modern Hungarian art from the Saint Stephen King Museum of Székesfehérvár, Levy Galerie, Hamburg |
| Hungarian Glass-Sculpture, Suomen Lasimuseo, Riihimäki, Finland | |
| 1981 | Hungarian art 1905–1980, Konstmuseum, Göteborg; Konsthall, Malmö; Konsthall, Stocholm (S) |
| 1980 | Art and society 1945–1980, Art Gallery, Budapest |
| 1979 | Contemporary Hungarian art, Firenze, Milan, Italy |
| 1973 | Contemporary Hungarian sculpture 1957–1972, Puskin Museum, Moscow, Russia |
| 1972 | Glass in the sculpture, Gallery, Szeged |
| 1971 | I. International Statuette Biennial, Art Gallery, Budapest |
| 1969–1974 | II–IV. National Statuette Biennial, Pécs |
| 1967 | International Sculpture Biennale, Middelheim (NL) |
| 1948 | Towards the Public Art, Old Art Gallery, Budapest |
| Her public works | |
| 1980 | VilmaHugonnai, bronze, Budapest |
| 1974 | The Memorial of Sachsenhausen |
| Károly Kernstok, bronze, Budapest, Artist boardwalk of Margaret Island | |
| 1972 | György Goldmann, bronze, Budapest |
| Imre Henszlmann, bronze, Budapest | |
| 1969 | Adolf Káldor, bronze, Budapest |
| Miklós Radnóti, bronze, Budapest | |
| 1968-1970 | Scientists, limestone, Institute of Biology, Tihany |
| 1966 | Female Body, housing, Ajka |
| 1965 | Female Body, Rácfürdő, Budapest |
| Mihály Karolyi, Budapest | |
| 1965 | Béla Bartok, Budapest |
| 1953 | Déryné, limestone |
