The Ensemble (1907 körül)

Tichy's ink drawings show the influence of Dürer's engravings, especially the Apocalypse series, which the Hungarian artist was equally concerned with. His brother Kálmán Tichy brought home several postcards by Dürer from his trip to Munich in the autumn of 1906. At the turn of 1906-1907, Gyula began his Apocalypse I series, where he discovered his individual style. In the humorous ink drawing shown here, the horseman of the Apocalypse (resembling Don Quixote) is bent over under the weight of a naked woman (perhaps the winged angel in the Dürer picture, or perhaps the allegory of Victory) descending on his shoulders. The unity of the composition, the perfectly clean lines, the balanced harmony of dark and light spots, suggest the lessons of Dürer studies.