Painter, artist in mural and mosaic, illustrator and teacher, born in Gyor, Hungary. After service in World War I in the Austro-Hungarian Army, Mayer-Marton in 1919 began training as an art student in Vienna at the Academy of Arts, later in Munich. From 1924 he fast established a reputation in Vienna, where he held senior positions in the Hagenbund, a leading society of artists. Works by him were acquired by the art galleries of Budapest, Vienna, Brussels, Prague and Rome, and he won a number of prizes and awards. In 1932 he illustrated two books from the Chinese and in 1936 helped to arrange a show of British watercolours in Vienna. Mayer-Marton emigrated to England in 1938, taking a post at the St John’s Wood School of Art, but his studio was hit by an incendiary bomb in 1940, which destroyed most of his life’s work.