S Nagy Katalin, Anna Margit, Budapest, Képzőművészeti alap kiadóvállalata, 1971
→Turai Hedvig, Margit Anna, Budapest, Szemimpex, 2002
Anna Margit, Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest, December 1983 – January 1984
Hungarian painter.
Born into a provincial Jewish family, Margit Anna arrived in Budapest in about 1930, where she learnt drawing at a private school. Her early works were underpinned by the very strong spiritual relationship she had with her husband, the painter Imre Ámos, whom she also regarded as her art teacher (she was, incidentally, often accused of being his epigone). Their encounter with Chagall in Paris, in 1937, influenced their work. Ámos died in a concentration camp. Margit Anna saw herself as someone on the sidelines because of her poverty and origins, and the forms of discrimination she suffered—in addition to the fact that she was a woman, which made her career even harder—made her differentness one of the themes of her art. As she looked for her place in the world as a woman and an artist, she produced just self-portraits in which she was, turn by turn, a circus performer, a dancer, painter and model, and prostitute.