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This artist had strong links with the Pre-Raphaelites of England. He studied under Bertalan Szekely and was one of the first artists in Hungary to work in the universal spirit of medieval arts and crafts. He and Sándor Nagy founded a tapestry workshop at Gödöllő, and he designed stained glass windows, painted frescoes, made mosaics and illustrated books. He was also one of the first to collect Hungarian folk art objects, transplanting the clear colours, two-dimensional decoration and harmonic lines of folk embroidery and tapestry into the "art nouveau" of the turn of the century.
There is a strong English influence in his drawings, in his art that was in any case romantically inclined was especially influenced by the mysticism and symbolism of the Pre-Raphaelites. His pen-and-ink drawings frequently lack any toning, being pure line drawings. The entire surface is evenly filled by a web of lines of equal intensity.
The drawing was bought from the artist in 1905.
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