Elmyr De Hory was born in Budapest, Hungary. DeHory studied at Akademie Heinmann art school in Munich under Fernand Léger. A Jew and homosexual, he was imprisoned in Germany where his health declined. He escaped from a prison hospital and slipped back into Hungary. Later he moved to Paris and, unable to make a living as an artist, found that he had an uncanny ability to copy the works of noted painters such as Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, and Renoir.
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