László Kézdi-Kovács was born in 1864 in Pusztaalsócikola and died in 1942 in Budapest. He was a self-taught painter, whose first steps as an artist were led by Antal Ligeti. After 1886 he participated in annual salon exhibitions in the Műcsarnok gallery in Budapest. In 1900, he was awarded the Silver medal in the world exhibition in Paris and the Gold medal in London. Many of these awarded paintings were purchased by the gallery of Modern Art in Venice. Kézdi-Kovács mainly worked with landscape themes from forest interiors as well as the popular rural genre and landscapes with figural staffage. He participated in exhibitions in the salon of Könyves Kálmán (1908) the Nemzeti Salon (1911, 1921) and the Műcsarnok gallery (1928). After 1893, he worked as a critic of the Pesti Hírlap daily newspaper. His paintings are represented in the collections of the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest.