About

Béla Kádár, one of the leading Hungarian artists of the early 20th century, strove to create a new and unique visual language that fused his native folk imagery with important contemporary movements such as Orphism, Neo-Primitivism and Cubism.

Born on June 4 1877 to a working class Jewish family in Budapest, Kádár became one of the best known artists of his generation. After only six years at school he became an apprentice iron-turner, before taking an influential trip across Western Europe in 1898 (by foot due to insufficient funds) that inspired him to become an artist.

First studying …