 In 1924, he was one of the founders of the "" (New Society of Artists, whose acronym "KÚT" means "fountain" in Hungarian).In 1926, he was commissioned to paint murals at the Biological Institute in Tihany.When he retired, he had already been suffering from heart disease for several years so, as it worsened, he made plans to settle permanently in the rural village of Tata, where he owned a villa and had spent many summers painting.