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József Nemes Lampérth began his career with the avant-garde group known as The Eight, then exhibited his works with the Activists. All those stylistic traits which destined him to play such a unique role in the period's Hungarian art can first be observed in "Self-portrait", painted in 1911. Technically, the painting is a mixture of geometrical formal tendencies borrowed from Cubism and a kind of distinctively expressive, unsettled use of the brush. In respect of the artistic character, in this painting Nemes Lampérth emphasizes a subjective and often depressed emotional state projected on every image of the outside world. Despite his early death, Nemes Lampérth became one of the most significant artists of the Hungarian avant-garde movement.
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