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Influenced by Czóbel, Kernstock went to Paris where he was fascinated by Matisse's and Picasso's art. After returning to Hungary, he gathered progressive young artists who had visited Paris, around him in his house in Nyergesújfalu. Kernstock himself had bourgeois radical views: instead of a radical revolutionn, he urged changes. Due to his suggestive personality, he became a leader of the Eights, a heterogenous group, whose members had exhibitions together in 1909, 1911 and 1912. They shared the same ways, they joined contemporary European art trends, and they belonged to a community instead of being lonely as were Nagybánya artists: all this meant a significant progress in Hungarian art. The Eights got as far as monumental art.
Tasks in connection with architecture were realized by Kernstock and Pór only. Their task was to decorate the Schiffer-villa, Budapest, in 1911. The glass window with six panes of the hall was designed by Kernstock. The third pane given here shows an idyllic world: Elysian female figures are picking flowers; naked figures fill the picture. A luxuriant vegetation can be seen in the background. Kernstock surrounds forms with contours along lines of force. The rhythm of curved lines produces a decorative effect.
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