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Born Magda Lustigova to a prominent family of grain merchants in Hungary, she fled to Egypt and then Palestine as a refugee during World War II to escape Nazi persecution. Here, she found work as a translator for British intelligence and met her first husband, Frank Cordell , who was also working for British intelligence.
Artist producing abstract and figurative work, born in Hungary, also known as Magda Cordell. She had moved to London after World War II and by the mid-1950s was established as an exhibiting painter. After being the wife of the musical director of EMI, Frank Cordell, she married the artist John McHale.
Born in Hungary, the artist married Frank Cordell, musical director of EMI. She was a regular figure at the newly formed Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and a founding member of The Independent Group.
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Abstract. At the end of the Second World War, the Hungarian-Jewish painter Magda Cordell McHale fled to London, where she remained until 1961, when she moved to the United States to pursue a career in futurology with her husband, the artist John McHale (d. 1978).
Magda Cordell McHale (née Lustigova; June 24, 1921 – February 21, 2008) was a Hungarian artist, futurist, and educator. She was a founding member of the Independent Group which was a British movement that originated Pop Art which grew out of a fascination with American mass culture and post-WWII technologies.
Painter, art theorist and academic, Magda Cordell (née Lustigova) was born into a Jewish family in Nové Zámky, Hungary (now Slovakia) on 24 June 1921. To escape Nazi persecution during the Second World War, she sought refuge first in Egypt and later in Palestine.
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Mar 17, 2008 · Ms. McHale is survived by her three stepchildren, all sons of Mr. McHale: John, who lives in Ottowa; Julian, of London; and Evan, of Albuquerque.
