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1916 was a turning point in the artist's life and work, and so was this drawing. He returned from the First World War as a wounded soldier, and despite the shock and the terrible events he had experienced at the front, he became preoccupied with "motives" of the events. He drew the soldiers, poor men returning home as invalids, burnt-out and broken. The artist himself came to Lake Balaton in the same way, in misery both physically and mentally. He was captivated by the beauty of nature, and from that time onwards he tried to create peace between himself and nature, between ever-searching man and the world.
The great expanse of water already appears in this work, although he has not exploited the magic possibilities of the distant lights, and the emphasized contours still evoke the constructiveness of his earlier works.
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