Dávid Jándi (born David Lederer) (1893-1944), painter, painter, born in Jánd, a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, Hungary (then part of Austria-Hungary). He was educated in Nyíregyháza, where his family settled towards the end of the 19th century. In 1911 he moved to Baia Mare (Nagybánya), now in Romania, and joined the local school of painting led by János Thorma (1870-1937) and as of 1912 he adopted the name David Jandi. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army during WW I creating numerous drawings. It seems that he was captured by the Russian army and held in Siberia, before returning to Nyíregyháza after the end of WW I. After the war he studied at the Budapest College of Fine Arts in 1922. In 1925, for nearly a year he lived in Italy, and then visited that country almost every year until 1930 working in Venice and Florence. His experiences in Italy had a huge impact on his work. He painted landscapes, biblical and mythological scenes strongly emphasizing the spatiality of the forms. He participated at several exhibitions in Budapest as well as in various cities in Transylvania. In 1926 he was elected a full member of the Society of Painters of Baia Mare. After Northern Transylvania was annexed by Hungary in September 1940 and as a result of the implementation of the anti-Semitic policy, he could participate only at exhibitions organized by Jewish associations. His work Ghetto apparently was created during the last month of his life when the Jews of northern Transylvania were forced into ghettoes by the Hungarian authorities before being deported to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. Jandi was deported from Baia Mare in 1944 and shot dead while attempting to escape from the deporting train.