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Maria Lugossy
Hungary, 1950–2012
Place of BirthBudapest, Hungary
Place of DeathBudapest, Hungary
BiographyMaria Lugossy was born in 1950 in Budapest, Hungary. In the early-mid 1970s, she studied at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Arts, where she received both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Celebrated in Hungary for her public works, such as The Flame of the 1956 Revolution (1996) and Memorial for the Victims of World War II (1995), she is also an internationally renowned glass artist. "Discriminated against because she would not join the Communist Party, she flouted pre-1989 authority with glass, bronze, and stone sculptures that treated proto-feminist themes such as the origins of life, conception, and birth, as well as ecological themes" (M. Kangas, Sculpture 29 (9), 2010). She won many awards throughout her career, including first prize in the 1986 Le Verre au Feminin en Europe exhibition in Belgium, the 1996 Suntory Prize in Tokyo, and the 1992 grand prizes at the FIDEM International Congress and Exhibition of Medal Art in London and the Centre International d'Art Contemporain in Chateau Beychevelle, France. Lugossy participated in numerous international exhibitions, and her works in glass reside in collections worldwide, such as Musée Louvre in Paris, the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, the British Museum in London, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.She passed away August 15, 2012, and is survived by her husband, Hungarian artist Zoltan Bohus.
