Tibor Gergely
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August 3, 1900
Tibor Gergely | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tibor Grünstein August 3, 1900 |
| Died | January 13, 1978 (aged 77)[1] New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Illustrator |
| Spouse | Anna Lesznai |
Tibor Gergely (August 3, 1900 – January 13, 1978) was a Hungarian-American artist best known for his illustration of popular children's picture books. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[2]
Gergely was born Tibor Grünstein[3] in Budapest in 1900 into a middle-class Jewish family.[4] With the collapse of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, he fled Hungary for Vienna,[5] where his social circle included other Jewish exiles such as the Hungarian Red Army commander Jenő Landler and the communist politician József Révai.[6] He studied art briefly in Vienna and drew newspaper caricatures there[7] before immigrating to the United States in 1939,[8] where he settled in New York City.
