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| Gabor Peterdi |
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Hungary 1915 Died an American citizen in Connecticut 2001 See below for a brief bio |
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Nude I, Paris 1935
17" high x 13" wide
pen & ink
$1,500.00
Gabor Peterdi was born in 1915 in Budapest, Hungary. Having poet parents, Peterdi grew up in an environment in which poetry and art were natural and exciting pursuits.
In 1929, the 14 year old Peterdi began his study of Art at the Hungarian Academy. Within one year he left his native Hungary and traveled to Rome on a coveted Prix de Rome scholarship for painting. The following year Peterdi again moved, this time to Paris where he was to remain until 1939. Under the tutelage of Stanley William Hayter at his Atelier 17 Studio, Peterdi learned to use and develop the print media as another means of expression.
In 1939 with the threat of yet another war Peterdi decided, as did many other artists, to leave Europe and go to the United States. Increasingly Peterdi became pre-occupied with the themes of destruction. The unreason and sense of foreboding were expressed in symbols of the minotaur, the bull, the disemboweled horse, and clashing figures.
On becoming a United States citizen,
Gabor Peterdi entered military service and eventually assisted in the capture
and return of escaped Hungarian war criminals from Austria. It was his
observation of World
War II that served as the source of many of the haunting images Peterdi drew in
1945 while in Germany.
After a lapse of five years Peterdi resumed his career as an artist at Hayter's New York Atelier 17. While much of his work continued to reflect his memories of the war, a new theme concerning the elemental forces of nature entered. Peterdi's new belief in life compelled him to express the "creative force of life as a symbol of the triumph of life over destruction."
By 1949 Peterdi was teaching at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School. This position gave way to teaching post at Hunter College in New York, and finally to his appointment as Professor of Art at Yale University.
Nature and the landscape has increasingly dominated Peterdi's work. Believing that an artist must become a sensitive part of nature, Peterdi has explored the American West (1961), Mexico, Yucatan and some of the South American countries, as well as Alaska (1963) and the Hawaiian Islands (1968).
Gabor Peterdi has been accorded over 40 prizes, grants, and other honors and his work is included in the Permanent Collections of over 150 institutions around the world. The artist was Professor Emeritus of Yale and living in Connecticut when he died in 2001.