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(18. March 1951., Erdőtarcsa – )

Márta Bada has lived in Gödöllő since her childhood. Iván Remsey, leader of the artist camp of Gödöllő, Pál Mizser, artist painter, and Lilla László, drawing teacher have been the three people who have influenced Bada’s artistic style as a painter. Having not been admitted to the secondary school of fine arts in Budapest, she worked for the building pottery company of Budapest as an unskilled worker between 1963 and 1976, where she got a chance to design floor tiles. Later she made a living as the cleaner of the city economy company in Gödöllő – this is still her job today.

She has been painting since 1973 and has taken part in amateur art competitions. she has been influenced mostly by Munkácsy, Szinyei, Van Gogh and Tamás Péli. She was a conscious painter trying to meet other roma artists like Mara Oláh or Jolán Oláh. In her adulthood, Bada’s art has been mainly supported by Ágnes Daróczi, Menyhért Lakatos, Jenő Zsigó and Katalin Sári, art historian. Today, her works of art can be found in the Roma Parliament, the Ethnographical Museum, the Collection of „Gypsy Women’s” Association, and some Hungarian and foreign private collections. She endowed educational establishments with several of her paintings. In 1979, 1989 and 2000, bada participated at the self-taught gypsy artists’ national exhibition in Budapest. She had several individual exhibitions in Hungary and abroad, and in 1985, she also participated at the World Exhibition of Gypsy Artists in Paris.

Nature, the landscape of Gödöllő, the life of gypsy people, and a fairy world come alive in Bada’s impressionist and colorful pictures. Her beloved theme is the sea with its flora and fauna. The figures on her paintings are mostly women, girls and madonnas – Bada illustrates the life of gypsy people through them.

Works is public collections

• Roma Parliament

• Ethnographical Museum

• Collection of „Gypsy Women’s” Association.