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Tihanyi also belonged to the Group of Eight, and like many other artists in the group, he had strong connections with literary life.
In 1918 Tihanyi joined the Activists, led by Kassák, which carried on the spiritual heritage of the Group of Eight, but which was much more radical. From 1923 onwards he lived in Paris, where he retained his strong ties with the most prominent figures of Hungarian intellectual life (Mihály Károlyi, Gyula Illyés). His best works were portraits. From 1915, he worked with increasing expressiveness, and besides self-portraits he did a series of likenesses of many of the great figures of Hungarian literature.
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