Draft:Klára Tamás

Klára Tamás (Marosvásárhely, August 20, 1946 – March 4, 2021) was a Hungarian graphic designer from Transylvania. She is the younger sister of Mária Tamás (1930–1987).

Her life and work
She graduated from the High School of Arts in Marosvásárhely (1964), then graduated from the Ion Andreescu College of Fine Arts in Cluj, majoring in graphics (1970). After moving to Bucharest, between 1970 and 1981 she was the graphic editor of Meridiane and then Kriterion Könyvkiadó (book publishing). She created book designs, illustrations, later posters and large-scale independent graphic works. Among the duplicating graphic techniques, she was primarily interested in etching.

She had solo exhibitions in Bucharest (1974, 1979, 1987), Rome (1981), New York (1982), Esslingen (1984), Cluj (1985). She participated in international poster triennials (Warsaw, Chicago, Toyama /Japan/, Paris, Pécs) and etching exhibitions (Baden-Baden /Germany/, Varna, Biella /Biella county/, Grenoble, Seoul). In 1984, she won a Gold-Hugo Award in Chicago. In 1992 she settled in New York.