Career
In the early 20th century, Pór went to Paris, where he studied with Jean Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris. He returned to Hungary and began his career, becoming a popular portrait painter. He also worked as a fresco painter.
After the fall of the Hungarian Democratic Republic in 1919, Pór emigrated to Czechoslovakia. He painted landscapes and pictures of animals. Pór traveled to France, Italy, and the Soviet Union on artistic patronage. In Paris he met many young émigrés among the Hungarian artistic circles before World War II, including Ervin Marton, whose work in photography he encouraged.
During 1944-1946 after the Liberation of Paris, Pór worked with Marton and the writer György Bölöni on reorganizing the Hungarian House there, a center for the artistic community. Artists created the center as a place to create exhibits of contemporary art. Pór continued to be in contact with the Hungarians in Paris.
The Hungarian National Gallery holds one of his oil self-portraits from the 1910s. The Museum of Modern Art has his 1919 lithograph, Világ Proletárjai Egyesüljetek! (Proletarians of the World, Unite!).
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