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In 1962 she married Peter Katz, a businessman, and took time away from work to raise her family.
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Aided by a grant from the World University Service and sponsorship from a senior British civil servant, Evelyn Sharpe, who became a friend and mentor, she won a place to study economics at the London School of Economics, after which she worked at European Chemical News as information officer, then Monsanto UK as economic intelligence officer, spending her free time visiting museums and galleries.
To escape the subsequent Russian occupation she crossed the border on foot to Austria and within a few days made her way to England with the help of the British embassy in Vienna.Īgi embraced London and the freedom it had to offer. Agi went to university in Budapest to study medicine, but had only been there for six weeks when, in 1956, as an 18-year-old, she took part in anti-communist demonstrations as part of the Hungarian Uprising that brought Soviet tanks rolling in from the frontier. Agi’s father survived, but was demoted from consultant surgeon to junior registrar. When Hungary was occupied by the Germans in 1944 her father, Antal Royko, a surgeon, worked in an underground hospital treating partisans until he fled to Transylvania with the rest of the family, Agi, her mother, Kati (nee Weisz), and brother, Andras, on the day before all the Jewish occupants of their building were shot.Īfter the war the Russians occupied Hungary and there were purges of the academic and middle class. It was a thriving place, much loved by the art world and the local community, and was infused with the vitality that had been Agi’s hallmark ever since she had arrived in the UK from Hungary in the late 1950s.Īgi was born into a Jewish family in Budapest just before the second world war. My mother, Agi Katz, who has died aged 83, set up her own art gallery, the Boundary, in the St John’s Wood area of London in 1986, and ran it until her death.