Biography
István Zádor (b. Nagykikinda, Serbia January 15 1882 – d. Budapest, Hungary May 24 1963) originally worked as a bank clerk but also studied at the Hungarian Academy of Arts, Budapest from 1901, at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris between 1906-09 and at the Academy in Florence between 1909-10. He was both a realist plein-air landscape and portrait painter as well as a graphic artist, having been taught by T. A. Steinlen (1859-1923). During the First World War he produced military drawings in Hungary but after the fall of the Commune he lived for a short time in Weimar and then in Munich. Back in Hungary, he co-founded the Szinyei Merse Pál Society in 1920 and helped to revive the artist colony at Szolnok in the 1930s. From 1938 Zádor lived in the Netherlands until after WW2 when he finally settled again in Budapest.
