About Margit Beck
Lived 1918 – 1997 (aged 78–79). Margit Beck was an artist.
Margit Beck Schwartz (1918–1997) was a Hungarian-born painter who lived and worked in the United States.
She was born Margit Beck in Tokay, Hungary. She studied first at the Institute of Fine Arts in Oradea, Romania and then at the Art Students League of New York.
Her work is included in the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her papers, c.1950–1970, which give her year of birth as 1915, are held by the Smithsonian.
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Who was Margit Beck?
Hungarian-born painter who lived and worked in the United States (1918–1997)
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Margit Beck was born in 1918.
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Margit Beck died in 1997.
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Margit Beck was an artist.
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