Margita Reiznerová
created: 08. 07. 2021 08:45 modified: 08. 07. 2021 08:53
The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
MARGITA REIZNEROVÁ
She was born on May 5, 1945 in Malé Bukovce, a Romani settlement in eastern Slovakia. In 1945 the family moved to Prague. In the 1980s her family members established a music ensemble called ‘Perumos’, in which Reiznerová played a leading role as a solo singer. The ensemble performed not only music and dance but also drama. Reiznerová was at the centre of the Romani cultural development of the early 1990s: she was a founder of two Romani journals and the Association of Romani Writers in Czechoslovakia. In addition, she headed the ‘Romaňi čhib’ publishing house. In the mid-1990s, she emigrated from the Czech Republic to Belgium in response to growing racially motivated violence against Roma. The core of her work comprises poems and (autobiographical) short stories she published in a number of Romani as well as in collected volumes of her own works and anthologies. She died on September 16, 2020 in Lokeren, Belgium.
author: Jozef Fečo
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 30. 11. 2020
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Margita Reiznerová general audience internal
