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Denes de Holesch was born in Banska Bystrica which was then part of Hungary, but  now Slovakia, in 1910. He graduated from the Budapest Fine Arts Academy in 1930. In 1933 he left for the Orient, where he lived, painted and exhibited in Beijing. And in 1936, after a brief sojourn in Japan, he travelled to the Philippines, where he would live among the Igorot headhunters. Then on to Bali where he built himself a house in the jungle. In 1938, he moved to Australia where, after being official artist on a government sponsored expedition in the north, he lived and worked in Sydney. In 1944 he met and married pianist Joyce Greer. Together in 1945 they journeyed to the United States. During the rest of his life, Holesch lived and worked in Europe and North America, exhibiting in, among other places, Paris, New York, and London. In 1983 he died while on a visit to Budapest. He was 73.