Geza Szobel

Géza Szóbel was French/Hungarian painter born in 1905 in Komárom. His first exhibition was held in the Cultural Palace of Komárom at the age of 23. Later, he was admitted to the Fine Arts Academy of Prague, and then he moved to Paris, where he became a student of Fernand Léger. The modern French painting movements influenced his works significantly. 

After a visit to Berlin, he was attracted to German Expressionism. Then he decided to return to the other capital of the avant-garde, Prague. His second exhibition was in Bratislava in 1934. He joined the Czech army in 1939 and was a war artist. He spent some time in London at the end of the war. Finally, he settled down in Paris with his wife, where he became friends with such avant-garde artists as Chagall, Le Corbusier, Aragon, Lucien Hervé and the Delaunays.