István Beöthy (Etienne)
Hungary (1897—1961)After the First World War, Beöthy studied architecture in Budapest. In 1919 he met László Moholy-Nagy and Lajos Kassák, who introduced him to the MA group and encouraged his interest in Constructivism. The following year he enrolled at the College of Fine Arts to study sculpture and began travelling throughout Europe. In Paris, where he settled in the 1920s, he became involved in the development of abstract art and in 1932 founded the Abstraction-Création group. After the Second World War he continued to develop his theoretical research, particularly on colour and proportion.
