László Péri - Monoskop
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L’œuvre graphique d’un artiste qui pensait formes, ombres, couleurs et perspectives.
Born 1899 in Budapest into a large proletarian Jewish family and became politicised at an early age. Finished an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and became a student at the workshops for proletariat fine arts in 1919. He was in contact with Kassák and the Activists. In 1917 he began his career as an actor at the MA theater school, studying with János Mácsza. As part of a theatre company he went to Prague which is where he heard about the fall of the Republic of Councils. Studied architecture in 1919-20 in Budapest and Berlin. 1920 lived shortly in Paris, in the house of a socialist baker before being forced to leave the country due to his political activities.