MAGDA BÓDYNÉ HADIK
Lived: 1914-2004
Field(s) to which she contributed: arts, sculpture, artistic medal-making
Area on the route: Makó
Address of Tourist Attraction: Makó, Posta Street 6
Contributions to culture and science
In 1947 she was admitted to the College of Fine Arts. Her teachers were Pál Pátzay, Jenő Barcsay and Béni Ferenczy. She graduated in 1953. She went on several study trips abroad. She visited Austria, Germany, France, Greece, Poland and the Soviet Union. She worked at the art camps in Mako, Hódmezővásárhely, Hoyerswerda and Frunze, and also participated in the wood sculpture workshops in Nagyatád and the Nyíregyháza-Sóstó medal art workshops.
She married Ferenc Bódy, and as her husband got a job at the Reformed grammar school in Csurgó, the couple moved there. She found her voice in the 1970s and 1980s, and her art focused on people and human emotions. She created small sculptures, coins and large sculptures. Her sculpting is characterised by block-like forms and closed, delimited shapes. Her art reflects a balanced, Christian personalist approach. At the end of her life she lived in Budapest; in her will she left most of her surviving works to the Csurgó and Makó museums, divided between them.
Short biography
Bódyné Hadik, Magda (Ópécska, 1 June 1914 – Budapest, 2 May 2004) Hungarian sculptor, medalist.
Her father was stationmaster in Ópécska, after the Trianon peace treaty the family moved to Makó, the nearest town on the other side of the new border. Here she finished her schooling – she studied at the Csanád Vezér High School – and her artistic career developed. In 1947 she was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts. She married Ferenc Bódy, and as her husband had a job at the Reformed secondary school in Csurgó, the couple moved there. Her relatives stayed in Makó, and no children were born later. During the period of socialist realism, she could not find her place, and created art mainly for her own amusement. In the 1970s-80s she found her voice, her art centred on people and human emotions.
Interesting facts
Her work can also be found in public collections in the following places:
- Déri Museum, Debrecen
- József Attila Museum, Makó
- Magyar Nemzeti Gallery, Budapest
- Petőfi Irodalmi Museum, Budapest
- Rábaközi Museum, Kapuvár
- Tornyai János Museum, Hódmezővásárhely
- Városi Museum, Csurgó
Awards:
Honorary Citizen of Csurgó