Tibor Gergely

Tibor Gergely ( born August 3, 1900 in Budapest, † January 13, 1978 in New York City ) was a Hungarian- American book illustrator of children's books.

Life

In the Budapest Sunday Circle, a meeting mainly Jewish intellectuals, such as Georg Lukács, Karl Mannheim, Arnold Hauser, Béla Balázs, and also the literary figure Anna Lesznai, Gergely was the youngest participant in 1919. His talent for drawing, he used to sketch caricatures of the discussants, the sketchbook is now in the " Hatvany Lajos Muzeum ". After the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic he emigrated in 1921 to Vienna, where he briefly studied art and where the fifteen years older than Anna Lesznai and he got married.

In Vienna he was a cartoonist in Siegmund Bosels newspaper the day and in 1923 was co-founder of the Viennese marionette theater " Gong ". Gergely and Lesnai were included in the Hagenbund. Under a more liberal Hungarian government returned in 1931 both to Budapest. He was also a member of the New Artists' Association Kut. For fresh summer time they held on to Lesznais country estate in Slovakia.

Due to the political repression and anti-Semitism both emigrated in 1939 to the United States. Gergely now designed the titles of magazines like The New Yorker. He was in New York City a position at the Steinhardt School of Education. He broke up with his career as a freelance artist and transformed in paperback publishing house Simon & Schuster illustrator of children's books, both of individual securities, as well as in the series of Little Golden Books, which he illustrated more than seventy books. The title Tootle the Engine and Scuffy the Tugboat were still 2001 on the best-selling English - language books of all time.

Gergelys oil paintings from his European time were found only in his estate.

Exhibitions

  • Hagenbund Vienna, 1926
  • Tamás Galéria Budapest, 1936
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1986
  • Halbturn Hagenbund Exhibition 1993

In German language, published books

  • Arthur Rundt: America is different, Berlin: National Association d book lovers, sign -Verlag 1926
  • Annie North Bedford: feast day on the farm, Reinbek: Carlsen 1977 ISBN 3-551-06133-5
  • Barbara Shook Hazen: The Noah's Ark, Reinbek: Carlsen 1978 ISBN 3-551-06143-2
  • Miryam Yardumian: The cheerful man and his truck, Reinbek: Carlsen 1982 ISBN 3-551-06162-9
  • Catherine and Byron Jackson: Happy figure book, Aarau: Sauerland 1952
  • Catherine and Byron Jackson: Waldi, the little guard dog, a Golden Children's Book No. 5, Aarau: Sauerland 1952
  • Miryam Yardumian: The funny car, A Golden Children's Book No. 7, Aarau: Sauerland 1952
  • MacCallum tells funny stories, Munich: R. Piper & Co. 1929 / Zurich: Rascher, 1949
  • Joseph A. Davis: 365 Animals v. A to Z: My big zoo lexicon, Dt. v. Anne Marie Hill. Stuttgart, Zurich: Dolphin Pub. 1972
  • What animals can: Animal Records in pictures and numbers, Dt. by Anne Marie Hill. Stuttgart; Zurich: Dolphin Pub. 1972
  • My big bird lexicon: 350 birds from around the world, text by Anne Marie v. Hill Stuttgart; Zurich: Dolphin Pub. 1977
  • A day full of work, Reinbek: Carlsen, 1976, ISBN 3-551-08202-2.
Arnold Hauser (art historian) Publishers Weekly Integrated Authority File
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