Kati Zsigóné

The base of this piece of art was a 49x44 cm ostrich egg, the process took seven months and was finished in 2019. For easier understanding, Zsigóné also made a 30-page illustrated guidebook, which includes explanations of the symbols found on the egg.

The Egg of the Hungarian Nation (hungarian: ’’A Magyar nemzet Tojása’’) is a special egg Zsigóné made in 2018, for the 980th anniversary of the death of Stephen I. The base was the egg of an ostrich. She utilized 11 different techniques on it (including painting, waxing, scratching, carving, batik, dotting, horseshoeing etc.) creating 79 patterns, including Hungarian motifs (halas lace, Matyó- and Kalocsai lace etc.). The motifs, images and signals depicted on the egg commemorate different important moments and symbols of Hungarian history, including the Hungarian crown jewels, the turul, the Conquest of the Carpathian Basin, the Blood oath, or the Treaty of Trianon, as well as the Assumption of Mary and 16 golden horseshoes.

In 2014, she created her own exhibition in her own home, which is visited by Hungarians and foreigners alike.

She married József Zsigó on 7 May 1977, their daughter, Katalin was born 9 July 1978, while their granddaughter, Panna was born 3 January 2013.

Kati Zsigóné (Józsefné Zsigó, born Julianna) (born 16 June 1953 in Kecskemét) is a Hungarian fine artist, egg painting artist. In 2009 in Dubai, she was chosen among the top five egg painting artists in the world, and the best one on the European continent.