Gyula Pap (1899-1983)

Painter, graphic designer, product designer and photographer. He learnt photography at a young age, taking his first pictures as a child in Berlin and then as a soldier during the First World War. From 1920 he was a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, studying at the metal workshop. Upon returning home he engaged in lithography, painted and took sociographic photographs of different nationalities living in the Southern Great Plain and Timisoara. In 1926 he accepted the invitation of Johannes Itten to teach at the artist’s school in Berlin and stayed there until 1933, meanwhile working as a commercial graphic designer together with László Moholy-Nagy. When he returned home once again in 1934, he settled in Budapest. His photographs and paintings from this period depict landscapes of Hungary, the lives of agricultural and industrial workers. Between 1949-1962 he was a professor of the Hungarian College of Fine Art.