Agnes Szentgyörgyi Gallus (May 15, 1930 – August 8, 2010) was a Hungarian Canadian painter who immigrated to

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, in 1957.

Early life

Agnes Szentgyorgyi was born in

Ópályi Ópályi is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area ...

, Hungary on May 15, 1930. She was the fifth of six children born to George Victor Szentgyorgyi and Maria (). She attended a

convent school Catholic schools are parochial pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest religious, non-governmental school system. In 201 ...

as a child before studying art in

Győr Győr ( , ; ; names of European cities in different languages: E-H#G, names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia region, and – halfwa ...

. In 1954, she married Laszlo Aladar Gallus. They fled the country with their infant son during the

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. At the time, Agnes was pregnant with their first daughter, who was born in Vienna. They immigrated to

in 1957. They had a second daughter,

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, before separating in 1968.

Career

In Canada, Gallus studied art at the

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with artists

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and

Ted Godwin Edward W. (Ted) Godwin, L.L. D (August 13, 1933 – January 3, 2013) was the youngest member of the Regina Five, a group of five artists ( Ken Lochhead, Art McKay, Ron Bloore and Douglas Morton) all based in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1961 wh ...

, and taught art classes there between 1970 and 1977. She was a contemporary of The

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, and participated in Emma Lake Artist's Workshops. During that period she studied under Harold Cohen,

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, and

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. In 2003, she moved to Toronto where she continued working as an artist until her death on August 8, 2010. Her work was exhibited at the SK Arts "Until Spring" exhibition in 2021, and "There’s an Artist" in the Garden in Regina in 2016, with fellow Saskatchewan artists Wynona Mulcaster, Mina Forsyth, Donna Kriekle, and Russell Yuristy. Her art is held in public and private collections, including the Dunlop Art Gallery, SK Arts, the

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, and the

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President's Art Collection.

References

Hungarian emigrants to Canada People from Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County 20th-century Canadian women artists {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallus, Agnes 1930 births 2010 deaths