Teréz Zsolnay

Along with her younger sister Julia and Ármin Klein, she was the most important artist of that factory during its rapid growth and worldwide success in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In her memoirs, she also mentions that in addition to collecting folk treasures from around Pécs, she also had the opportunity to study the most typical motifs of other parts of Hungary, thanks to the friendliness of the then director of the Hungarian National Museum, who made many objects available to her.

[5] Her husband, Jakab Mattyasovzky, was a geologist who toured Hungary, and was of great help to his father-in-law Vilmos in finding the best clay deposits needed to make fine ceramics.

[6] She largely devoted her life to her family, and at the age of 70, she began writing the History of the Zsolnay Factory, which she wrote in the form of memoires for over 20 years, on almost 2,500 pages of text.

[7] She was already over 70 years old when she got involved in the work of the factory again, painting Egyptian, figural and geometric motifs on vases (the so-called Tutankhamun series).