Elmyr de Hory
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Emerging from a modest Hungarian background, he began formal training at the Nagybánya artists’ colony at sixteen, continued at Munich’s Akademie Heinmann, and completed his studies in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under Fernand Léger. After World War II, he discovered an uncanny talent for mimicking the styles of masters, selling a Picasso-style drawing in 1946 that fooled a Britis…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
