Background
Zsuzsi Roboz was born in Budapest, where her father, Imre Roboz, was the manager of the Vígszínház theatre, which specialised in operettas.
Zsuzsi Roboz was born in Budapest, where her father, Imre Roboz, was the manager of the Vígszínház theatre, which specialised in operettas.
Her mother was a society hostess. Her father disappeared, killed, as her family later discovered, by the invading Russians. She and her mother managed to escape.
After a brief period in France, she was sent to secretarial school in London but would pursue a career in painting.
Some of her paintings are exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate Gallery. She was best known for her portraits of dancers, musicians and writers.