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large-size nude compositions (After Bath, 1921, Bethsabe, 1923) where the weighty forms appear in dull golden brown shades. These pictures of his had a great influence on his younger contemporaries, Vilmos Aba Novak, Károly Patkó and Erzsébet Korb. He spent his summers and later all his free time in Zebegény where the Danube-Bend, the family and the peasant people offered him the uncountable multitude of painterly motifs. From the beginning of his career he liked to make etchings, including such masterpieces as the Snow-Covered Village (1927). Inspired partly by the Renaissance he painted several large-size figure compositions (Fruit-Pickers, Crossing the Danube 1928). Then such works followed as the Burial In Zebegény (1928) which is of Brueghel's character, or the peaceful idyll of the Hungarian village, the Evening In Zebegény (1928). After a short stay in Rome (1929) his palette became more colourful (Calf On Sale, 1933), his ochres, purples and browns strengthened in his colour scale (Evening, 1934, National Gallery). From the mid-30s he painted the series of his main works mainly in tempera, with light and fine colours: one of the most beautiful Danube-Bend landscape (The Danube Is Grey, 1935), the two villagers walking past a house (On the Way Home, 1938), his most elaborately artistic composition (Umbrellas, 1939), the GardenBench (1943) with its vision-like radiation or his large-scale and heroic Mother With Daughter (1944). From 1937 he taught at the College. He edited and partly wrote the book titled The School Of Fine Arts (1941), and wrote the one titled Picture (1943). After 1945 he got great commissions among which the most outstanding one was the two connected series of 100 square metres with their monumental and clear composition, made for the Hungarian hall of the agricultural exhibition in Moscow. In 1954 he had a large one-man show in the Ernst Museum. Before his death he lived in Zebegény where he painted landscapes and figure compositions and made excellent gouaches and etchings. His commemorative show was arranged in the National Gallery in 1963. His studio in Zebegény was converted to a museum. István Genthon." (1968) i -18-