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Klára Herczeg, also Claire Weiss (born 13 October 1906 in Budapest - 6 August 1997) was a Hungarian sculptor. She is the founder of the Klára Herczeg Prize, which is awarded annually by the Young Artists Foundation. Read the full biography

Klára Herczeg, also Claire Weiss (born 13 October 1906 in Budapest - 6 August 1997) was a Hungarian sculptor. She is the founder of the Klára Herczeg Prize, which is awarded annually by the Young Artists Foundation. Klára Herczeg spent her childhood in Vienna, where she began a sculpture apprenticeship in the Arsenal foundry. From 1924 to 1928 she attended the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, where she was taught by Zsigmond Kisfaludy Strobl. After completing his studies, he lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1930 for a year and created porcelain figurines, including the Rosenthal company. She then moved to Paris, where she was taught by Charles Despiau until 1933, while continuing to design porcelain figurines for various companies.