Eugen (Jenö) Szepesi-Kuszka was born on 7th December 1885 in Spišská Nova Ves, and died in 1948. After graduating secondary school, he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Budapest (professors J. Benczúr and K. Lotz). In 1898, he got to know Ladislav Medňanský, with whom he would later collaborate and travel across the Hungarian countryside for almost 18 years. This influenced his iconographic focus, but, above all, the expressive potential of his bleak luminism. He mainly painted landscapes and, under the influence of Medňanský, he painted mainly the themes from the Tatra mountains and the Spiš region. The tarns of High Tatras, desolate forests or abandoned houses and the vegetation above the Poprad river represent frequent themes of his paintings. After 1908, Szepesi-Kuszka regularly participates in exhibitions in Budapest and other Hungarian cities (as a member of famous Hungarian painters’ colony in Baia Mare, Transylvania). He also had annual expositions in the National Saloon in Budapest. Bibliography: Váross, M.: Z novších výtvarných dejín Slovenska. Bratislava 1962, s.130, 139; Výtvarný život na Slovensku začiatkom 20. storočia. Bratislava 1970, str. 80; Vízdalová-Haščáková, G.: Profily. Košice 1982.