14 Facts About Hugo Gellert

Hugo Gellert's illustrations were first published in radical Hungarian and American magazines, but in the 1920s Gellert worked as a staff artist for The New Yorker magazine and The New York Times newspaper.

Hugo Gellert was born Hugo Grunbaum on May 3,1892 in Budapest, Hungary, to a Jewish family.

Hugo Gellert studied at the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design.

Hugo Gellert, a committed socialist who later joined the Communist Party of America, considered his politics inseparable from his art.

Hugo Gellert's work was prominently featured both in the illustrated magazine of the Hungarian Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America, Elore, as well as Max Eastman's radical monthly magazine The Masses from this time.

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Hugo Gellert created numerous illustrations for Eastman's successor magazine, The Liberator, as well as sundry publications of the Communist Party USA after its formation, such as The Workers Monthly and The New Masses.

Later, Hugo Gellert was offered a position as a staff artist for The New Yorker magazine.

In 1927, Hugo Gellert was appointed the leader of the Anti-Horthy League, the first American anti-fascist organization.

In 1934 Hugo Gellert was among the leaders of the Artists Committee of Action, an informal group which had formed to protest Nelson Rockefeller's destruction of Diego Rivera's mural Man at the Crossroads early in the year at Rockefeller Center.

Hugo Gellert was instrumental in the establishment of Art Front magazine, which started publication in November 1934 and was at first jointly published by the ACA and the Artists Union.

Hugo Gellert later became the Chairman for "Artists for Victory", an organization that included over 10,000 members.

Hugo Gellert died in Freehold Township, New Jersey on December 9,1985.

Hugo Gellert was convicted of refusing the draft and sentenced to prison.

Hugo Gellert fled to Mexico after Ernest died of a gunshot wound in prison at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, officially a suicide.