Róbert Berény

They essentially formed the core of modernist experimentation, and were part of radical intellectual currents in music and literature, as well.

After the fall of the republic that year, Berény emigrated to Berlin, together with numerous other Hungarian artists and writers.

Since the late twentieth century and the political changes in eastern Europe, there has been renewed interest in Hungary's early modernist artists.

A Berény painting titled Sleeping Lady with Black Vase, whose whereabouts had been unknown since 1928, was re-discovered by chance in 2009 by art historian Gergely Barki upon watching the 1999 American film Stuart Little with his daughter, where the piece was used as a prop.

An assistant set designer had bought the painting cheaply from a California antique store for use in the film, and had kept it in her home after production ended.