13 Facts About Gabor Peterdi

Gabor Peterdi was a Hungarian-American painter and printmaker who immigrated to the United States in 1939.

Gabor Peterdi enlisted in the US Army and fought in Europe during World War II.

Gabor Peterdi lived and worked primarily in New York and Connecticut, teaching at the Brooklyn Museum, Hunter College and Yale University in addition to working at his art.

Gabor Peterdi was born on September 17,1915 to parents who were poets; they lived in Pestujhely, Hungary, a recently developed northern suburb of Budapest.

Gabor Peterdi started working in art from an early age and at 15 won a Prix de Rome to study painting in Italy.

Gabor Peterdi studied at the Academie Julian and the Academie Scandinavien.

At about the age of 24, Gabor Peterdi emigrated to the United States in 1939, at the time of the beginning of World War II in Europe.

Gabor Peterdi first settled in New York, but joined the Army, serving with the United States in Europe during the war.

Gabor Peterdi established and directed the Graphic Workshop at the Brooklyn Museum Art School.

Gabor Peterdi taught at Hunter College and at the Yale School of Art.

Gabor Peterdi was a major influence on younger American printmakers, including Robert Bero and Danny Pierce.

Gabor Peterdi was associated with the New York branch of Atelier 17.

Gabor Peterdi's work is held by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among other institutions.