Biography
He is the great-grandson of the first Hungarian Prime Minister, Count Lajos Batthyány. He completed his studies at the Julian Academy in Paris and in 1907 in Munich, with Angelo Jank. In 1914, he was exhibiing in the Ernst Museum. He became acquainted with the art of Leon Bakst. He worked for years in Florence and Naples. He spent a longer time in England and America. From 1921 to 1938, his works were regularly shown in the Műcsarnok and the Nemzeti Szalon. In 1931, he had an exhibition at Galerie Gurlitt in Berlin. In addition to Daumier, the style of his painting can be related to El Greco. Its form is surrealistic. After 1945, he was interned and stripped of his wealth due to his noble birth, and in the 1950s he was sentenced to prison on charges of espionage.