Lovers in the Garden (1930)

Between 1903 and 1908, Gyula Tálos studied at the School of Applied Arts, where he graduated as an interior designer, under the tutelage of Ede Wiegand Thoroczkay. He then spent three years studying in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Brussels and Paris. During this time he also worked in the workshops of the Deutscher Werkbund and the Wiener Werkstatten. After his return (1910-1911) he worked as a decorator in architectural offices. From 1911 to 1913 he worked as an interior designer and decorator in the offices of Béla Lajta, and from 1913 to 1941 as an interior designer and decorator in the offices of Béla Málnai.From 1941 to 1948 he was head of office in the office of Elemér Csank (Rottmann), and from 1948 to 1956 he worked in the building department of the Public Building Design Company. 

His interior design, furnishings, unique furniture, graphics, exotic colour paintings, ex libris and engravings won numerous prizes in architectural and industrial art competitions and exhibitions between the two world wars. His work as an exhibition designer includes the 1938 exhibition of the Society of Applied Arts, for which he designed and supervised the entire installation. In the same year, his unique furniture won the gold medal of the Society of Applied Arts. 

As a painter and graphic artist, Tálos presents a more closed world than as an architect. In this field of his art he was more drawn to illustrative depictions, his stylised figures and his decorative depictions of nature leading us into a unique world. The sinuous lines and detailed ornamentation of Lovers in the Garden, the timeless beauty of the young couple, the fantasy-like landscape, are a pictorial expression of the 'Hungarian style' that emerged from the soil of Art Nouveau.