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Eva Sandor

Layer: DAOO Artists with known birth places and birth years
Type: Other

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Latitude: 47
Longitude: 20
Start Date: 1924-01-01
End Date: 1924-01-01

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DAAO URL: https://www.daao.org.au/bio/eva-sandor
Birth Place: Hungary
Biography: wood engraver and graphic artist, was born in Hungary and trained at the Budapest Academy of Art. Leaving before World War II for a six month holiday in Bali, she was interned in Batavia by the Japanese en route . After three years in a prisoner-of-war camp, where a fellow internee was the Hungarian pianist Lily Kraus, she became assistant manager at the Dutch Information Service’s art studio in Indonesia. Sandor came to Sydney in 1950 ('I had no special reason to pick this country except that it was near Indonesia, but I like it very much’) and worked as a freelance artist specialising in wood engraving. In 1952-53 she produced a series of wood engravings to illustrate Stuart Scougall’s Consider the Lilies (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1953). She had a wood engraving hung in the 1953 Blake Prize exhibition. In 1983 she exhibited a complete set of woodcuts on the theme of human rights. Sandor died some time before 1995, according to the National Gallery of Australia’s list of Australian women artists supplied during the National Women’s Art Exhibition that year. This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography. Writers: Staff Writer Date written: 1999 Last updated: 2011
Born: b. 1924
Summary: Wood engraver and graphic artist, Sandor came to Sydney having been a prisoner of war in Indonesia. She had a wood engraving hung in the 1953 Blake Prize exhibition.
Gender: Female
Died: None listed
Age at death: None listed