Tibor Gergely

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

Life

In 1919, Gergely was the youngest participant in the Budapest Sunday Circle, a meeting primarily of Jewish intellectuals such as Georg Lukács , Karl Mannheim , Arnold Hauser , Béla Balázs , and also the writer Anna Lesznai . He used his talent for drawing to sketch caricatures of the discussants, the sketchbook is now in the “Hatvany Lajos Múzeum”. After the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic , he emigrated to Vienna in 1921, where he briefly studied art and where he and Anna Lesznai, fifteen years his senior, married.

In Vienna he became a caricaturist in Siegmund Bosel's daily newspaper Der Tag and in 1923 co-founded the Viennese puppet theater "Gong". Gergely and Lesnai were accepted into the Hagenbund . Under a more liberal Hungarian government, both returned to Budapest in 1931. There he also became a member of the New Artists' Association KÚT . They stayed at Lesznai's country estate in Slovakia during the summer .

Because of political repression and anti-Semitism , they both emigrated to the United States in 1939 . Gergely has now designed the covers of magazines such as The New Yorker . He received a position at the Steinhardt School of Education in New York City . He broke his career as a freelance painter and changed himself to an illustrator of children's books at the paperback publisher Simon & Schuster , both of individual titles and of the Little Golden Books series , of which he illustrated over seventy books. The titles Tootle the Engine and Scuffy the Tugboat were still among the best-selling English-language books of all time in 2001.

Gergely's oil paintings from his European time were only found in his estate.

Exhibitions

Books published in German

  • Arthur Rundt: America is different , Berlin: Volksverband d. Book friends, Wegweiser-Verlag 1926
  • Annie North Bedford: Feast day on the farm , Reinbek near Hamburg: Carlsen 1977, ISBN 3-551-06133-5
  • Barbara Shook Hazen: Noah's Ark , Reinbek near Hamburg: Carlsen 1978, ISBN 3-551-06143-2
  • Gertrude Crampton: The little red steamer , Reinbek near Hamburg: Carlsen 1979, ISBN 3-551-06149-1
  • Miryam Yardumian: The happy man and his vice , Reinbek near Hamburg: Carlsen 1982, ISBN 3-551-06162-9
  • Katharina u. Byron Jackson: Happy figure book , Aarau: Sauerländer 1952
  • Katharina u. Byron Jackson: Waldi, the little watchdog , A Golden Children's Book No. 5, Aarau: Sauerländer 1952
  • Miryam Yardumian: The funny car ride , A Golden Children's Book No. 7, Aarau: Sauerländer 1952
  • MacCallum tells funny stories , Munich: R. Piper & Co. 1929 / Zurich: Rascher, 1949
  • Joseph A. Davis: 365 animals v. A to Z: My large zoo lexicon , Dt. v. Annemarie von Hill. Stuttgart, Zurich: Delphin-Verl. 1972
  • What animals can do: animal records in pictures u. Numbers , Ger. by Annemarie von Hill. Stuttgart; Zurich: Delphin-Verl. 1972
  • My big bird lexicon: 350 birds from all over the world , text by Annemarie v. Hill Stuttgart; Zurich: Delphin-Verl. 1977
  • A day full of work , Reinbek near Hamburg: Carlsen 1976, ISBN 3-551-08202-2 .

literature

  • Éva Bajkay: Gergely, Tibor . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 52, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22792-2 , p. 98.
  • Anna Lesznai: Late autumn in Eden . Novel. Stahlberg, Karlsruhe 1965.
  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Austrian library in exile. Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85452-276-2 (there short biography and detailed bibliography pp. 124–126).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Éva Karádi [Ed.]: Georg Lukács, Karl Mannheim and the Sunday Circle , Sendler, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-88048-074-5
  2. ↑ on the interpretation of the caricature by Lukács see Reinhard Laube: Karl Mannheim and the crisis of historicism , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004 ISBN 3-525-35194-1 . The caricature is shown in: Reinhard Laube : "Perspektiven", in: Otto Gerhard Oexle [Hrsg.]: The problem of the problem story , Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-437-4
  3. ^ The artists' cooperative and their rivals Secession and Hagenbund Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 2003. Volume 1 of Das Wiener Künstlerhaus 1861 - 2001 ISBN 3-85437-189-6 , p. 337
  4. ^ Publishers Weekly , December 17, 2001. online .
personal data
SURNAME Gergely, Tibor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-American book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1978
Place of death New York City