Early Life, Family and Training Gyula Éder was born on December 25, 1875, in Košice. He grew up in a household connected to the civic life of Kassa, as his father, Ödön Éder, served as the city's mayor and a parliamentary representative. His mother was Ilona Benczúr, which meant the artist was the great-nephew of the painter Gyula Benczúr. This family connection placed him within a specific lineage of Hungarian art from a young age. H…