Born in Budapest, Hungary, 1877. Studied at the University of Fine Arts in 1902. An exhibition held at the National Gallery in Hungary in 1906 won him considerable acclaim.
The paintings and drawings of a Béla Kadar (1877-1956) are provocative examples of early twentieth-century art. Exciting and often whimsical in his approach, Kadar adopted a remarkable number of international trends, including Cubism, Futurism, Neo-Primitivism, Constructivism, and the Metaphysical School. Mixing and melding these trends with uncanny ease, Kadar became famous for what critics called his “dashing turns of style...”
