Gyula Derkovits - 1514

Painter, graphic artist. He was an apprentice in his father's joiner shop. He began drawing very early and was taught to paint by a sign painter. His left arm became paralyzed in World War I. From 1916 onwards, he lived in Budapest. He learnt to paint and do copper engravings in Károly Kernstock's school. He produced mostly pencil and tint drawings during 1916-18. He met left-wing emigrants in Vienna and joined the Austrian Communist Party. His works reflected the influence of German expressionists and his political experiences in Vienna in 1928–29, when his most significant graphic work, "1514", wood engravings inspired by the Dózsa peasant revolt, was finished.