Béla Uitz


Béla Uitz was a Hungarian painter and communist activist.
In 1907 he studied at the Hungarian National School of Applied Arts before moving on to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1908.
He joined the Communist Party of Hungary who sent him with Alfréd Kemény to attend the 3rd Congress of the Communist International. Whilst in Moscow he met Jolán Szilágyi, a Hungarian studying at VKhUTEMAS.
He was the editor of Egység, a radical art journal published in Vienna and Berlin, 1922-1924. Aladár Komját was his co-editor.