ISTVAN CSOK 2/3 – An example of his work, can be glimpsed behind the opening credits of the 1971 film Countess Dracula (this is an 1896 painting, showing serial killer Countess Elizabeth Bathory enjoying the torture of some young women: in an inner courtyard of one of her castles). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamBv1eGNCc
ISTVAN CSOK 3/3 – In 1895–96 he painted many portraits and scenes of the everyday life of the Shokats people of Transdanubia in their colourful traditional dress. His art was honored with several awards, among them the Kossuth Prize, which he won twice, he was a professor at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts. As he himself said, his painting always evolved between the forces of tradition and innovation.
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