Room (Around 1930)

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest between 1927 and 1932. Already in 1927 he took part in the Young Painters Exhibition at the Károlyi Palace, with what critics called his cubistic crowd scenes. In 1931, he had a joint exhibition with Károly Csapek B., in 1934 at the New Salon, and in 1935 his works were shown at the Buda Fine Arts Society and the Saskör. His favourite technique was watercolour.

Little is known about the life and art of István József Póth. From 1937 onwards, almost nothing. Based on his known works, his paintings are characterised by their cartoonishness, pure composition and planarity. Póth's paintings depicting interiors of flats can be classified mainly as belonging to the new objectivity movement and its decorative wing (Géza Vörös, György Rauscher, Attila Sassy). The Room Interior on view here is a "Magyarized" version of this, which at the same time fits in with the art movement popular in the 1930s that depicted Hungarian folk art and rural life (the Undi brothers, Kato Petrich).