Tornai Cairo Street Scene 1903

Gyula Tornai is regarded as of the most renowned Hungarian painters of Orientalist art. His training began at the Viennese Academy (1879–1882) and continued at the Munich Academy, where he studied under the Hungarian painter Professor Gyula Benczur (1882–1889). Thanks to a scholarship, Tornai was able to travel to Florence, where he copied works by Rembrandt. In 1904, after a few successful exhibitions, Tornai decided to embark on a journey around the world, with prolonged sojourns in India and Japan in particular