Dóra Maurer, ‘towering figure’ of the Hungarian art scene, has died aged 88

Hungarian painter, printmaker, and filmmaker Dóra Maurer has died aged 88, according to the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, where she served as president from 2017. Born in Budapest on 11 June 1937, she graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1961 and developed a six-decade career spanning printmaking, conceptual photography, film, performance, and painting. Her best-known bodies of work include Quasi-images (1970–73), Reversible and Changeable Phases of Movement (1970s), Seven Twists (1979), and the Overlappings series (1970s–80s), often built through systematic or mathematical processes exploring form, time, and movement. Maurer collaborated with Miklós Erdély on the Creativity Exercises course (1975–77), worked with the InDiGó Group (1981–83), and taught at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts from 1990, later becoming a full professor.

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