[1] Kövesházi-Kalmár was born on 1 January 1876 in Vienna, Austria.

[2] She was a member of the Künstlerinnen group, the Hagenbund and the Hungarian artists' association Kéve.

[3] Among her awards she was the recipient of a silver medal at the 1926 World's Fair in Philadelphia and a silver and bronze at the 1937 Paris World's Fair.

[1] Despite this recognition, she was unable to support herself as an artist and she turned to creating orthopedic shoes for a living.

[1] Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.