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.