BIOGRAPHY Mrs Lena Kiss was born in the town Tula in the former Soviet Union as Noricina Jelena Nikolajevna. She studied at the Moscow Textile Institute in the faculty textile designer and got degree. After studying she moved to Hungary to her hungarian husband. Between 1973 and 1990 worked at PNYV, the biggest cotton factory in the country, in the central studio.

Being member of the Fundation of Hungarian Artists participated regularly at Savaria Biennale in the town Szombathely. Till 2008 worked for artistic studio Atelier München ES. Many leading West European textile factories used her over 250 works. Some of them were publicised in the popular illustrated magazines, in the title page. The Hargittai Textile Studio in Paris was one of her costumers. The designer’s everyday work is strictly limited because of the technology and costs, they could use normally 6-8 different colors or at most 12 colors, and the size of rapport (repeating figure) determines the possibility of design. Lena Kiss was basically aquarellist. The aquarelle is the art of the moments, the picture is determined of the topic and the mood of the artist. After being released from the designers work Lena painted with pleasure still lifes and
sketches of flowers. Also painted landscape on basic nature of our surroundings villages: Pomáz, Budakalász, lake Omsk, river bank of Danube, Danube bend. In her pictures of farms are saved the disappearing memories of the farmer world at Szank. During travelling at the evenings painted, sitting at the riverbank of Danube, Tisza, lake Balaton, Tisza, and during our study trip in Turkey she made some aquarelles of Dardanelles. At her pension time from 2009-2010 joined to the Fine Arts Studio at Pomáz, leading of
artist Mr. János Kiss (no were relatives, this family name is frequent in Hungary). Painted in oils canvas, and acryl tables in spirit of Bauhaus, always looking for her
personal style. The figurative and non-figurative pictures, where the man stands in the centre, reflect her internal thoughts. About 200 textile designs left over from the legacy of Léna Kiss enrich the collection of the Óbuda Textile Museum. The note "Private collection" below the pictures indicates pictures bought by art-loving individuals, offered for charity auctions and donated. Her works were shown at common and private exhibitions. Actually, one comprehensive collection was shown in the Vármező Galery at retrospective exhibition for her anniversary 75 years of born, in January 2024.
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Let’s remember the artist with words of Kandinsky:
Each painting mysteriously contains an entire life, a life of many sufferings, hours of
doubts, of enthusiasm and of delighted inspiration.