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Lajos Kassak was born on March 21, 1887 to a peasant family in Ersekujvar in northern Hungary. He left school at the age of twelve to become an apprentice blacksmith and metal worker. During his teenage years he lived a nomadic existence, but in 1909 he hiked to France, where he discovered the world of culture in the poetry of Apollinaire and the painting of Robert Delaunay and Picasso.
When he returned to Hungary, he established himself as a leader of the Hungarian cultural (showing 500 of 4431 characters). |