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József Egry's oeuvre, all its motifs and ambiance, is associated with the painting of just one landscape, that of Lake Balaton. He moved to Keszthely, a town situated at the south-western end of the lake, at the end of the 1910s, and then the Balaton and its surroundings wholly enformed his vision and style. "Echo", painted in 1936, obviously implied the actual echo of the Tihany Peninsula, which juts into the lake - a theme which had long held mythical substance in Hungarian art. Using as the foundation of the composition was the most important characteristic of Egry's style. " I am interested in space and eternity ... light itself ... the atmosphere, which is architectonic," he wrote.
The composition Echo is also dominated by light; it disintegrates the objects and arranges the composition. The symbolic meaning of the painting is expressed in the relationship between the image of eternal space and the tragical loneliness of the human figure.
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