Born in Nagykálló, Hungary in 1907, Ámos attended the Techinical University in Budapest between 1927 to 1929, then entered the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 1936 he was elected to the New Society of Artists. A visit to Paris and Chagall’s studio in 1937 would heavily influence his painting style throughout the mid 1930’s onwards.
“Self-Portrait” shows the influence of Chagall’s mystical dream like compositions, where even though we recognize the objects in the interior, they appear to float in a dream-like pattern above the artist’s head.
During World War II as Ámos was of Jewish descent he was taken to a labour camp in Vojvodina and then later deported to a concentration camp where he died at the age of 37 or 38.
