George Mayer-Marton (3 June 1897 – 8 August 1960) was a Hungarian Jewish artist who was a significant figure in Viennese art between the First and Second World Wars,[1] working in oil, watercolour and graphics.
In 1928 he provided illustrations in the Chinese style for Der Kreidekreis ("The Chalk Circle") by Klabund and submitted paintings to the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics, but did not win a medal.
In 1938 following the Anschluss of Austria and the enactment of Hitler’s Nuremberg laws, Mayer-Marton and his wife, the pianist Grete Fried, fled to England.
When, in 1945, Mayer-Marton learned of their deaths he painted the work Women with Boulders, showing two figures in a bleak rock-strewn landscape.
A mosaic by Mayer-Marton of the Pentecost was moved from the Church of the Holy Ghost, Netherton, when it was demolished in 1989 and installed in the Chapel of Unity in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral following a campaign led by the artist's niece Johanna Braithwaite.