Lola GALFFY
1902–1980, Hungary
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Painter, the wife of Andor Kántor. After the completion of her secondary studies in the Bethlen Boarding School of Nagyenyed (Alud, Romania) she moved to Budapest with her parents in 1920. She was a student of István Réti at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1921 to 1928. Here she obtained an art teacher's degree in 1924, then continued her studies as a post-graduate student. She taught in various types of schools from 1927 to 1963, and from 1950 to 1963 she worked as an art teacher of the Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts, and later she worked as the head of the textile department. In 1937 she married to the painter, Andor Kántor with whom she worked during the subsequent summers in the Old Colony of Artists at Szentendre. She was a member of the Society of the Painters of Szentendre from 1937 until her death. Her art that combined the postimpressionist trend of the school of Szentendre with her skills acquired in Nagybánya manifested itself in pictures of soft coloration and simple composition.
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