“I am who I am, where I came from, where I took my inspiration from, that is, my homeland, plus Europe. This is what painting means to me, this is my painting.” Dezső Korniss “What we want is …what Bartók and Kodály have already done in music.” Lajos Vajda These two lines describe the ars poetica of Dezső Korniss, also explicit in the title of the exhibition, From the clearest spring, which is identical with the title of a Bartók musical piece. Born in 1908 in Beszterce, Tran