The painter - rewarded the Kossuth and Munkácsy prizes - was born in Kiskunfélegyháza. He lived in Debrecenben until his death. He himself donated his paintings to his town in 1961. He was a prominent artist of the Hungarian expressionism.

Félegyháza was established in the 14th century. It was a small village then with a small church made of stone. The Turkish burned down the habitat in 1526. In the following 200 years it was a bleak. The exhibition presents the history of the habitat repopulated in 1743 until the middle of 1920.