Lancelot Ney, also known as Laszlo Ney, was a Hungarian graphic artist. He was a succeful caricaturist already in his early life. In the Hungarian Collage of Fine Arts his teacher was Istvan Reti. At the age of 22 he went to Germany on a study trip. In Germany he got to know Moholy-Nagy and by him Kurt Schwitters.

First Lancelot worked as a graphic artist and then as a painter. Michel Seuphor was a friend of him and he introduced Piet Mondrian to Ney.

Ney first made objective cubist pictures and then more absract compositions. Beside figural pictures he made abstract painting, ink drawings, etchings. In his last years he studied more than 500 Chinese characters and under the influence of them and Far Eastern art he made...