Julius Komjati ARE. was born in Komjat, Hungary and gained a teaching diploma at Budapest in 1911 entering the Academy of Fine Arts in 1914. He was called up for service in the war a year later and on his return gained a diploma of Professor of Design at the Academy. In 1920 he started to etch producing a series of illustrations to Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Goal. In 1927 he was awarded a travelling scholarship to study the graphic arts in England under Malcolm Osborne at the Royal College of Art. The firm of H.C. Dickens started to publish his etchings around this time and in 1931 he became an associate of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers. He exhibited at least nine times in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and published in all, some 75 etchings. Ref: Malcolm C. Salaman: The Etchings of Julius Komjati. P.C.Q. vol.XX No3 1933.