death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date article_title birth_name
1965 paris , france budapest , hungary lászló ney 26 july 1900 lászló ney
 lászló ney
lászló ney

lászló ney -lrb- also known as lancelot ney -rrb- -lrb- 26 july 1900 , budapest - 1965 , paris -rrb- was a hungarian graphic artist .
he was a successful caricaturist already in his early life .
in the hungarian collage of fine arts his teacher was istván réti .
at the age of 22 he went to germany to study abroad .
in germany he got to know moholy-nagy and through him kurt schwitters .
first he worked as a graphic artist then as a painter .
michel seuphor was a friend of his and he introduced mondrian to ney .
first he made objective cubist pictures then more abstract compositions .
beside figural pictures he made abstract painting , ink drawings , etchings .
in his last years he studied more than 500 chinese characters under the influence of them and far eastern art he made brush drawings .
