Baptized as Sicherman Margit, she was born in Borota, on 23 December 1913, as the daughter of a farm manager.She went to Budapest at the age of 17, and studied painting. She visited the private art school (The New Art School) of the painter Vaszary János. Here she got acquainted with the painter Ámos Imre. After a couple of years living together they got married in 1936.

During the next year the young pair visited Paris and got acquainted to Marc Chagall whose encouragement gave her strength to tolerate later omissions. During the World War II, her husband was deportated. Anna Margit was waiting for him till 1947, while many relatives of her died. Later she married a teacher of drawing and journalist Péter Imre.In spite of having two children, their marriage failed, so they divorced. Official Hungarian (communist) cultural politics classified her works firstly as "forbidden", later as "tolerated".

On the other hand, the appreciation of painter collegues, especially young painters helped her a lot. The next tragedy in her life was, when her elder son, the child-genius violinist became mental at the age of 20. The younger son, Péter Vladimír is one of the most important figures in contemporary Hungarian jewel art.